Leslie Mann Quotes

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

I am an actor. I try to do different things.

I have always been dramatic, so I think being an actress comes naturally to me. I think I am pretty good at it.

I'm not really trying to be too much of an actor or anything.

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.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own.

I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.