Alex Borstein Quotes

I'm an actor. I love to create.

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.

Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.

I have tried different things as an actor and have always believed in experimenting.

As an actor, one should be open to all kinds of roles.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

I want to discover more things about acting.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

I learned how to act working in TV.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

Since I was a child, I've been playing children. When I was little, I was the kid that you'd hire to do the reading or workshop of your new material.