Michelle Rodriguez Quotes

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I just like to act.

If you're an actor, go out and act.

As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.

Actors get bored.

An actor has to embody a role.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

Acting was something I had to do.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.

I auditioned for 'Moonlight' without knowing anything. I went in the room, and I didn't know the lines as well as I should have. I didn't know a thing about the script. I wasn't told anything. I heard it was a low-budget film, and my agent told me to do it. I was super-ignorant to it.

The only thing an actor can do is, whatever lands on the carpet in the hall, you read it, and if you can't put it down, that's the job to do.

When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I said to Tim, 'I'm sorry, but I don't have enough imagination to pretend this girl is my husband!' And he said, 'Well, I'll read it with you.' Which was very nice; he was the director. And I ended up getting the part.