Humphrey Bogart Quotes

Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

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

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

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.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

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 what happens on the way.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

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

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

Acting is actually private.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

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

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.