Wayne Rogers Quotes

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Acting is a mysterious process.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a look; my face does two or three different things, and it says it all.

One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

Modeling is really silent acting.

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.

When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.

For me, acting is doing.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.