Doug Jones Quotes

All actors are naughty. We're all troublemakers - horrible, attention-seeking children. 'Me, me, look at me!'

Acting doesn't suffice.

Actors are a peculiar breed.

Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function.

Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

Acting takes so much energy.

I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.

I wasn't born an actress, but I was certainly born dramatic!

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

Actors die so loud.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.