Brett Gelman Quotes

We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.

Well, usually, when you're doing a sitcom, you get a script and every word or for the most part, is written. So, you know, if it's a 30-minute sitcom, then it's a 35-page script or something like that.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I'm not used to a script.

I'm not an improv guy.

If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

On 'Silver Linings Playbook,' David O. Russell is the master at getting his actors to give him something that he doesn't expect. He loves to keep things spontaneous. He talks to the actors throughout a take because, in real life, you don't know what the next person is going to say; you don't know when you're going to get interrupted.

I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.

I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.

'End of Watch' was 98-percent written, and I work really hard to make it look like it's the first time I'm saying it.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I love acting. It's what I've done all my life, and to me, it's a lot easier than doing reality television because you get into a character, you remember your lines, and you go home and leave it all behind at the end of the day.

If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

Wayne was coming out of a session as Mickey for 'Totally Minnie.' We met in the hallway. We just blended really well.

I'm supposed to make plays.

To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.

I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.

We're very sure to stay in character, to experience the Sharknado as though it was real. That's what acting is.

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.