Robert Rinder Quotes

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

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

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.

I just loved the feeling of performing, of using my imagination to take me somewhere else.

To portray something that you're really not, it's like a little escape, and I love to act and to be dramatic. I feel like the wrestling ring in WWE is the perfect platform to do that. It's totally acceptable.

I think, as an actress, it is amazing to shock your audiences.

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

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

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

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic - all of that stuff was just fun early on.