Acting Quotes

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it’s been something that I’ve always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

Acting means living, it’s all I do and all I’m good at. If I weren’t getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it.

For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way – or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

That’s what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart – still before I go on stage – crashing out of my chest. That’s thrilling to me.

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes. It’s not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask.