Acting Growth Quotes

I believe that you become a better actor only when you work with people far better than you are.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

I want to stretch myself as an actor.

Wayne Wang, the director, really helped me become a more mature actress. When I first started filming, I was really over the top. He just helped bring me down and make me real. That was really wonderful, a really wonderful experience. Also, what I learned about filming is it takes forever. I mean, there are so many different angles and shots. I mean, it just takes forever.

Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.

I think 'Humans' has massively improved me as an actor.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I'm just looking for really good projects with varying characters - ones I haven't done before - so I can continue to grow as an actress.

I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.

I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.

It strengthens the acting muscles to tap into other parts of yourself. When you can accomplish something that's unexpected, for you as well as the audience, that's really important. It's also very important if you want people considering you for other projects to broaden their view of you.

I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress.

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

I like pushing myself as an actor.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I've been trying to find out what my wheelhouse is as an actor. 'Gilmore' was my first job, so only from there did I have a chance to really experiment and see how far I could stretch; I went maybe a little too far in certain directions.

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge.

As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Damnation' and 'Dublin Murders' are the first lead roles I've gotten to do. The more time you spend in front of the camera, the more you begin to relax in front of it.

I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.