Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes

A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.

I have had some great co-actors to work with like Richa Chadha, Taapsee Pannu and Alia Bhatt. I really value these big co-stars because if they are in sync with you, it makes you a better actor.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work.

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.

For me, I love auditioning.

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.

My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

I think our first scene was us arguing, and nobody wants to argue with Angela Bassett, but the thing about it was that all of the nerves I had going into it were immediately kind of quelled as soon as I got to the set. Becasue she's not Angela Bassett, she's just Angela Bassett.

If two actors can communicate well during a scene, it works and makes for good chemistry.

As an actor, your job is half done when your co-star becomes your friend, especially when it's Judi Dench.

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

I love to play varied roles. That's the most exciting thing for me.

I mean, acting is so easy! I love it and I'm good at it.

When preparing for auditions, I have no rituals. I just try to be as prepared as possible.

'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors.

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.