Iain Glen Quotes

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

As an actor, you have to have your history.

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

As an actor, I love a challenge.

You cannot sit at home at act. You need a story, a director, you need people to believe in you, to put you through that journey. It is not something you can attain within yourself.

I love to prepare for my roles.

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

This acting was very hard work.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

Nobody is a perfect actor.

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.