theatrical skills Quotes

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

I don't know how to drive a car. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing.

I can sing, I can act, my physical comedy is on point. I can do the splits.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.

The acting stuff is more important to me than actually being a big star.

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally different mediums. On stage, you worry about your voice and how you move physically. On TV, something like an eye twitch is what they could be looking for from you because it's so contained.

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.

Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am still of the same opinion. Imagination, industry [hard work], and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actor, but of these three the greatest is, without any doubt, imagination.

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.

My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as long as I can remember, I've always played make-believe ... It's something that I've always done, that I've always been comfortable doing.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.