Colin Baker Quotes

I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.

Theatre is difficult. It's not that I'm afraid of doing 'one takes' or shots, but it's about being able to live one character for several hours on a daily basis!

I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

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.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.

It's funny because, if you're not an actor, people always tend to say, 'How do you memorize all those lines? Is that really hard?' I'm always like, 'That's just a small part of it. I have to seek my craft and my emotions' - you know, all this gross, actor-y stuff.

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

I learned the process of this kind of acting, how things run, how chaotic it can be, and what kind of different muscles you have to flex.

People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.

It helps me as an actor to always be on top of my stuff.

In order to make Alma innocent and open, I had to forget that I'm stressed as an actress because I'm making a film with Paul Thomas Anderson. I had to let go of everything and hold onto the text. The language was like a rope I could cling onto and make my way blindfolded through the shooting.

Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

Throughout your whole career, there's a bunch of people you might have to kiss. Say there's this character opposite you, and you might not be into her - or him, personally. You just gotta' do it. That's your job.

This acting was very hard work.

There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

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