Robert Englund Quotes

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

Whether it's a very dramatic part or a comical role, I feel I need to create the same thing: a full-fledged, three-dimensional character that the audience can identify with.

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.

You do some acting in a room for a few minutes, hopefully get something out of it that makes you a bit better at acting, and go home. Maybe the people in the room with you liked the acting you did. Maybe they didn't! Either way, it's not the end of the world; you'll be doing this again soon.

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.

The skill of a gifted actor, their ability to interpret and develop a character and truly bring her or him to life, is one that I admire enormously.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.