Ne-Yo Quotes

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 really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.

I consider myself a character actor.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.

I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.

As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.

I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act. I would watch actors like Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas, and I understood them.

My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.