Ato Essandoh Quotes

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

I've learned almost everything I know about acting from my dad.

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

Any good actor is a character actor.

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'

At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.

I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.

I certainly don't like to play a bad guy. There are no bad people. It's only shades of grey. Also, I am not a great actor who can transform completely into a totally different character for a movie. I am not a trained actor.

I'm - you know, I'm not a good actor.

I'm a much better actor as a girl than I was as a guy.

I really want to act and act in great roles, which have scope of performance.