Sada Thompson Quotes

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

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

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.