Jane Seymour Quotes

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

I had never really thought about acting as art. You know, growing up in Youngstown, the Rust Belt of the world, it was always just a form of entertainment. Finally seeing it as an art form, I fell in love with it. So I moved out to California, never having visited before.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

Acting is really a give-and-take; it's a dance.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Acting is what happens on the way.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.