Chris O'Dowd Quotes

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

Class clowns become actors.

We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.

Actors love... at the end of the day, stars are actors. They love performing. And the more challenges I feel that you end up giving stars on the sets, the happier they are.

Actors have to entertain viewers, be it on TV or in movies.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

I just love acting.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.