Paul Sparks Quotes

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

You have to like the characters you play.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

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

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

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

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

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

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.