Angie Harmon Quotes

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

It's always fun to play characters that are different from me.

Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for.

That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

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

Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's enriched my life extremely. I've learned more about myself and the ways of life through being an actor.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

I enjoy directing, but I really like acting more. The idea of controlling the whole thing is not something that really appeals to me as much as being able to just control the world of the character that I'm dealing with.

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

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.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a cameo in a show or do a movie, it's a lot of fun and it's always great stepping outside of yourself and either playing a bizarro version of yourself or playing a character.

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.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.