Ben Savage Quotes

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

My background is in dance, but as soon as I found acting and realized that I could entertain people, not just with my body but with what comes out of my mouth, I was into that.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

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 started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called 'Potential Space.'

I like to do a lot of different things in acting.

Acting is acting, regardless of the medium.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasn't getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing.

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I'm an actor. I love to create.