Sam Rockwell Quotes

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.

I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts I got sidetracked into clubs and started doing comedy.

I like making people laugh, so drama was never a big leap for me.

All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'

I wanted to do what I was seeing Dorothy Dandridge doing, what I saw Marilyn Monroe do, what I saw Bette Davis do. I wanted to do that: to tell stories. I wanted to make people laugh, make people cry. I wanted to be a storyteller.

I love using drama and humour.

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

Acting truly is a love of mine.

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.