Stephen Dorff Quotes

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

The amount of effort and energy that goes into being an actor is something that I can't compare to anything else.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

As a professional actor, you have to do a lot of things and a steamy number is just one of them.

I don't think acting's difficult. It's not like learning to walk on your hands.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

I like everything about acting.

This acting was very hard work.

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Acting is such a weird job.

Acting is always a challenge.

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

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.