Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.