Julian Sands Quotes

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

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

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

I think acting is a gift.

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Actors really should be tramps.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

Actors are a peculiar breed.

My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I've acted ever since.