Acting Work Quotes

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

One of the big struggles for an actor is sometimes you have to take work that you don't necessarily want to do so you can pay rent.

I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

I do many commercials. All of them are interesting in their own ways.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

First of all, the leads aren't the kind of acting work that I like. The parts that are meatier are not the ones that have to have a romance.

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

I think I worked an average of about 10 minutes a day [in Big Bang Theory series]. It took longer to get to the studio than I actually worked. So I regard the driving there as the actual job. The work itself was just fun.

Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.

America was always a huge goal, if not the goal. I always wanted to move to America. I always wanted to come here and see what opportunities were around. I really only got a couple of auditions a year when I was in Australia, for acting work.

Luckily for me, I get a lot of acting-oriented scripts.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why it happens, why you are being asked to say what you're saying, and what the words mean. But then when you start working, most of the stuff would just fall apart if you subject it to that kind of scrutiny.

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

Now I do perhaps three films or 17 TV movies a year.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.

It's nice to have a little bit of action in your world. Sometimes us actors go a couple months without working, it gets a little crazy. It's good to be busy.

When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.

Like behind the car or in the pub, to do a scene, a proper nice dramatic scene, it's always a treat. And they're usually shot as one, so you've got a big chunk of dialogue to learn, and you feel like you're working.

I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries.