Brooke Langton Quotes

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.

I really respect actors much more now that I am one because I realise what hard work goes into being part of the industry.

'Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

You'll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone like me, I came from the theater, and I don't like putting anything up in front of anybody until it's really, really ready, so it can be very frustrating.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

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

I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.

In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am.

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

Acting doesn't suffice.

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.