Jamie Farr Quotes

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

I played Shylock in my school's staging of 'Merchant of Venice.'

I'll never forget John Heard doing Shakespeare In The Park with Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss. It was 30 years ago, I guess. It was Othello, and John Heard played Cassio, and while everyone else was "Acting!" Heard came on talking normal, and everyone in the audience was leaning in to follow him. I wasn't doing that in Bus Stop. I think in that performance, I was putting it out a little too much.

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran, he rapidly puts on the psychological makeup for this role he must play.

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.