Chris Kattan Quotes

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

Acting is therapeutic.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

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

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world of improv and comedy, you're able to let it flicker and fall out.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.