June Squibb Quotes

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

I love doing the nighttime soap, the emotional, psychological, hard stuff that I got to tackle on 'Hannibal.'

I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy has spent his childhood pretending to get shot.

[ Angel series] really taught me that acting is not just about being emotionally challenged. It's about being physically challenged. And I enjoyed both aspects of that.

These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural performances.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

Luckily, on 'Kyle XY,' I had great training in being tough and vulnerable at the same time.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.

I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.

I would love to play roles that continue to challenge and push me in different directions - emotionally, mentally, and physically as well.

The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's celebratory or whether it's conflicted.

I played a eunuch in 'Shabnam Mausi' with Ashutosh Rana and no one even knew when the film released.

That's the mark of a really great actor, when he can make you feel the emotion without having to search for it.

As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly.

I've played horrible people and done horrible things, and there were moments on 'The Knick' where it was super uncomfortable - some of the things I had to do and say.

Most of the actors that do play apes have told me that it's been one of the most profound things they've done, because you have to be so honest with yourself.

I have fun doing lighter roles, as I don't have to do anything against my emotions.

I thought as an actor I have always tried different fields and I've done emotional films before too.

In my opinion, boys should not start with films before they are at least 24 years of age, because emoting on screen needs a certain amount of maturity, and a lot rides on an actor's shoulders.

It's been great, I have to dig deep for really raw emotions and at the same time I have to use my intellect to say the ridiculous medical jargon while acting and treating a patient and then I have to try to have a personality and emotions as well. So it is definitely hard work.

I'm always in the elements, it seems like it's pouring rain on me a lot and there's crowds of people pushing me around, and it feels very real. Which is great as a actor, you don't have to come up with too much of it. I'm always amazed.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there.