Grace Phipps Quotes

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.

But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

I'm a fan of James Frain's work, especially in 'True Blood.' He was so awesome in that show.

I was born to be on the stage.

I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.

I'm delighted to be joining the cast of 'The Fall' for what is going to be an exciting and gripping second series.

I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting. A lot of my favorite comedies play out as dramas.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.

Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally. They're both amazing to me, and it's such an honor to be recognized for both genres, and to have the opportunity to work on shows of such great caliber in both genres. So, you know, it's easy to do both.

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.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories.

One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.

In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids in classes and the teachers would make it a point that I was the entertainer of the class, but only after high school and in college that I started doing theater and acting classes, because I thought it would be fun.

I want actors. I want to be with other people. I don't wanna be alone, because of the connection when you're in a room, in a scene with someone, and it comes to life. You feel like the moment is something magic.

I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it.

I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.