Aaron Tveit Quotes

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

When I meet a good actor, I would like to be a director. When I meet a good director, I would like to be an actor. When there is a good script, I would like to be both a director and an actor. The switch is very natural, not intentional.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.

Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many technicalities. So if I'm in my head, I've gotten settled on something, I'm gonna have to change it if I get there and something was set that's completely different.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

There are a thousand ways to play any role.