Elodie Yung Quotes

There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.

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

When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

A role like I had on 'Parks and Rec,' to me, is very easy to understand, and that's something that I can do with my eyes closed.

These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural performances.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.

For me to take a role, I read a script, and I think, 'Wow, I don't know how I'm going to do this, but I want to try.'

I am happy to be part of 'Sajjan Re Phir Jhooth Mat Bolo.' This character is something that I have not done before.

I had fun doing both types of roles. Both are good. One day you laugh, and the next day you cry. That's how it is.

I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.

Preparing for roles sounds so academic, doesn't it? It feels as if you are preparing for an examination! In a creative medium, the preparation is of an entirely different kind, and for me, the ideas flow from the script itself.

I have a hunger for good roles.

I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.

Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.