Stephen Collins Quotes

I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it's wonderful.

Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.

I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

I am eagerly waiting to play the lead role in a romantic show! I have such a strong role in 'Balika Vadhu,' but none of the guys in the show romance me on screen.

If there's a role on a TV show for me, I'll take it. If there's a role in a movie, I'll take it. I just wanna act. That's all it comes down to.

I heard about 'GLOW,' but I found out a little too late. I kind of made a run of getting a role training the actresses to show them how to wrestle.

Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.