Mick Jagger Quotes

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.

I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

I've been in front of the camera a million times as a musician, and even directed a few music videos. So, I know a lot about spacing, focus, blocking, etcetera. So, acting isn't totally new for me. Still, I find it fascinating, because you actually get to be another person.