Tony Todd Quotes

I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'

I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

I'm very proud of 'That Kind of Woman' with Sophia Loren, directed by Sidney Lumet, and I loved doing 'Gunman's Walk' because I finally got to play a bad guy.

I've always done character roles and tons of movies as the so-called star, but I always felt I was one of the team.

Performing outside of a WWE ring was a very different experience for me. In the ring if you hit someone in the face, you get an immediate reaction. You don't have that when you shoot a movie so you don't know whether or not it's good or bad until it's cut.

I think the biggest difficulty from transitioning from professional wrestling to the acting world is generally toning down your performance.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.

I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.

What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.

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

When acting, I can wear another person's clothes and act out the attractiveness of a particular character, which is very interesting for me. Singing is something I love as well.

I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I'm so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

As for Aamir Khan, he keeps raising the standard with every film. For an artist like me or a newcomer like me, we can only look up to that and dream, 'When will that be us someday?' There's so much to learn from him. He is the encyclopedia of acting.

I was never an ingenue, thank God; always character.

I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and always will.

It's tough to do a romantic scene with someone you don't like. I have been lucky so far.

Cameos are fun. You get to be the new kid on a new set, in a new world with a new family.

It is a treat to do scenes where you silently enact.

I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.