Nafessa Williams Quotes

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

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

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and to collaborate with the best actors and directors in film.

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after a while I found myself wanting to inhabit other people's worlds and lives.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.

I have to believe in the character to perform it.