Bob Uecker Quotes

I'm definitely not a football player, but I can play one for a season.

In my screen test for 'Hanna,' I sort of pretended I was this sporty person when I really wasn't.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I'm not really an impersonator.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

It's all stealing bases and winning games. If not, go home.

Every character I play is me.

There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.