Colleen Haskell Quotes

Even writing a script which will be funny is not easy. To make the script come to life and make the audience laugh, I will call myself more of an actor if I am able to do that.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job.

I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

The audience has reacted well to my comic timing. But, I also have other aspects to my acting talent.

The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.