Acting Relief Quotes

If anything, in the podcast world, I'm relieved that I don't have to dress like the character. I don't necessarily have to do all of the physicality that conveys the character, but do as much as I need to help me feel like the character.

It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.

Playing Mo-yeon was satisfying because I could be irritable. I normally can't be like that in public because of my image.

[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.

I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

I miss everyone on 'Coronation Street,' but I don't miss playing Becky.

Every time I see David Giuntoli on set, it feels like there's a huge load off his shoulders, because when it's me, it's real and it's flirtatious and it seems like it's way more fun.

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.

Doing comic roles is a great relief considering the power-packed roles that are usually offered to me.

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

It's nice to play a three-dimensional person every once in a while for a change of pace.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

There was a time when doing "Zoolander 2" that I was literally flying between the "Zoolander" shoot and "The Leftovers" in Texas and at that point, I was getting comedy whiplash. It was a relief, though, to get to Rome and be like, "Oh my God, I get to laugh on set."