Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but there's no difference. In the scenes that we're playing, if we were to block out the scenes as actors in costumes, it would be no different.

It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

As an actor, I feel like youre asked to live life as vibrantly as possible.

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

I just had a throwaway part, really, if you think about it. I'm not a natural actor, you know? I'm a comedian, through and through. And I really love my lines. Those are the lines I want to do.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book on acting.

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

I always have to pretend I'm somebody else to give the best performance. It kind of feels like I'm acting; it's definitely an exaggerated version of me. I'm a very normal, down-to-earth person, but I wanted the videos to be striking, so I have to lay it on a little bit.

I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.