Martha Kelly Quotes

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

Acting is a sport to me, I enjoy being in the ring and playing it.

Acting is fun. I especially like the action sequences. That's what I do best.

I've enjoyed lots of productions, and it's always been down to the actors I've been working with.

Acting is the way I make my living.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

My job was to play my character in the best way that I could, and hopefully people will enjoy that.

With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater.

Working with Kal Penn in 'Namesake' was funny at times. What we did was so real. We had fun on and off the sets, too.

The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed.