Regina King Quotes

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

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

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work.

But, as an actor, the role that I enjoyed, in terms of really understanding and appreciating this profession, was Anoop Singh's 'Qissa'.

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.

Believe it or not, I always found intimate scenes hard to do.

You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director.

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

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.