Richard Cabral Quotes

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters I got a chance to play. It's just always felt like home.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

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.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.