Tobias Forge Quotes

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

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.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

I am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Acting is a mysterious process.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.