Elizabeth Debicki Quotes

It's a great experience as an actor to just work loads all the time. Constantly getting through material.

As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to job. By virtue, acting is an unsure profession.

As an actor, you spend years getting ready for an opportunity to arise, and when it does, you're ready for it.

There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.

Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

I really take acting seriously.

I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip. I really dislike about 99% of what I do, but I like that 1% when I'm on camera.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.

I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

With acting, it's my job to be emotionally vulnerable and accessible.