Sarah Baker Quotes

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

Honestly, soaps are great training. You're doing 90-plus pages a day. It was my acting class, where I built my foundation for showing up and being professional.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

When you do action stuff and sci-fi stuff, you have a lot to hide behind - the hair and the makeup and the special effects. But when you play a normal girl, it's challenging because you have to trust yourself.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.