On-Camera Quotes

I think there are two different types of people in television. There are people who can turn it on like a switch when the cameras go on, and then, when the cameras go off, they kind of lower it down a little bit. And then there are people who are on all the time, no matter if the cameras are there or not.

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

When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.

If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.

I can act... well, kind of. I'm comfortable in front of a camera.

I'm just comfortable in front of the camera. I'm like the male Oprah.

I've never really enjoyed being in front of the camera.

I hate watching myself on screen. I can't stand it.

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

Yeah, I'm doing some stuff behind the camera. Producing and directing. I feel like my face has been on TV enough in my lifetime that people don't need to see me like that anymore.

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

I don't really like seeing myself on TV doing interviews.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

I'm not the most confident dancer, to be honest. Dancing on film was very difficult for me because you can see it after it's been done.

'Fatal Vision' was basically the first thing I did on camera.

I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because I'm just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot - but I broke on 'Sordid Lives,' and I broke on 'The Office.' Those are the only two times in my life.

I've been acting since I was 2 and have always been on camera but doing a video is different because when you're acting, you pretend the camera's not there and you just do the scene and with a music video you're right in the camera so it feels weird sometimes.

Some comedians you work with, they only turn on when the camera turn on, and they're like sad-faced clowns when the camera's off. And then, they come alive when the camera come on. And you be like, "Oh, damn. You're not a depressed ball of depression, but you are actually funny."