Lindsay Mendez Quotes

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

I think my concerns are the same as every actor. Can I find this character and make it come to life properly?

In fact, my role in 'Jinda' was tough because I couldn't relate to it in any way.

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book on acting.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

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

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill of holding pages in my hand and acting with pages in my hand. I find that every time I have to look at the page it takes me completely out of the scene.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.