Betty Gilpin Quotes

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

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

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

Theatre is something that keeps me very alert, and I am actively creating whether I am on stage or directing. In films, I feel I become more of an introvert, going deeper in the realism of a character.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.