Character Quote by Charles S. Dutton

Because I grew up around the reality and heartbreak of acting, I didn't want to have anything to do with it.

— Alison Sudol

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

— Jack Nicholson

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just…

— Joan Allen

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit…

— Josh Hartnett

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like…

— Donnie Wahlberg

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I…

— Charlie Day

The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I…

— Shailene Woodley

I didn't want to take the typical action roles that everybody was expecting me to take, because I was going to get typecast as…

— Dave Bautista

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your…

— Jeff Bridges

I did roles that I hated, and there were roles that were detrimental to my acting ability. There were roles that I was always…

— Taika Waititi

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful…

— Emily Mortimer

I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with…

— Jack Nicholson