Casey Cott Quotes

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

Early in my career, if I didn't get the ball, or if something would happen, or the media would say something, I'd take it personally.

Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.

I'm resigned to the fact that I'm gonna be the person in shows that people hate and dislike and root against. And I'm OK with it.

I am an actress, so my fans or the large audience should look at me as an actress on screen and love or hate me based on my performance.

I take audience reaction very seriously.

Guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, they'll take bad criticism in a good way.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.

When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.