Paul Newman Quotes

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

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 don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

I was born a character actor.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.

I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that.

Oh, I just love being a character actress. You have a lot of fun, and not only that, you save tons on cosmetic surgery because you never have to have liposuction.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.

As an actress, I want to live many lives on-screen.

I really want to act and act in great roles, which have scope of performance.

For me, the ideal job as an actor would be something that is intrinsically a drama but to which I could bring in as much humor as possible.

Before I started acting, I'd never wear makeup.

Understand that I had no concept of what being an actor was like when I was a kid - but I wanted to be an actor. Dressing up and being other people seemed like so much fun, but I didn't know what was involved.