Zoe Bell Quotes

At the end of the day, you're saying lines and playing pretend. All that varies from show to show is the level of the intensity and the terms of the expectations you place on yourself.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

An actor works with their soul and their thought.

Acting is very immediate.

Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.

Actors know one thing: If you're left just with words, you're in trouble.

That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.

Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing for me. If I'm doing action, or comedy, or something more heartfelt, it's a different approach, but it's all acting for me.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.