Russell Hornsby Quotes

My show is more storytelling now than it's ever been. It's what I'm good at.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

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

The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience.

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.

I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.

As an actor, every opportunity, every role, everything that I do is an opportunity to have someone have a human experience with my work. I don't just want it to be about a cute wardrobe and a high paycheck.

Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.

There's a joy in acting that's not present in writing, but there's a gratification in writing and creating that you can't necessarily find in acting.

I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience's approval whether you deserve it or not.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

Every day I wake up I am thankful and every night I am very thankful that I've made a career out of the phrase 'Let's get ready to rumble!'

Good shows have to get made in the first place... The regular ones don't excite me as an actor but at the end of the day, I have to work to earn my bread and butter.

My job is that of an actor. As long as I get to act, get some interesting parts to play, get to be a part of interesting stories, I would certainly want to do it.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

Theatre has a strong connect with the audience and gratifies me as an actor, but the canvas of films is huge!