Alan Ritchson Quotes

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don't ever miss it when I am not doing it.

I love telling the stories that we tell. I love playing the characters that we play.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

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

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

I loved doing the 'King of Queens', I have never had so much fun doing a show. People got to see a different side of me.

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

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!