Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

People ask, 'How can you let a defeat hurt you so much?' But it comes back to the effort you have put into your career as a youngster.

I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.

I worked very hard playing Arjun, and I was consumed by the character.

The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.

No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

This acting was very hard work.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.