Colin O'Donoghue Quotes

I like playing a variety of roles and characters, as it forces you to keep challenging yourself.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

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

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character actor.

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.

After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the first I'd heard of it. I'm not a comedian, I don't want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

To portray something that you're really not, it's like a little escape, and I love to act and to be dramatic. I feel like the wrestling ring in WWE is the perfect platform to do that. It's totally acceptable.

I think finding a way to relate material to yourself can be useful to some people but acting for me is just being really good at make-pretend and lying. I've always been a great liar.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.