Milo Ventimiglia Quotes

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

I love acting. Modeling is fun, too, but I feel like there is more room to stretch yourself and open yourself up to new experiences with acting. That's why I got into acting in the first place.

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I'm sure my agents would like me to play leading roles, and I guess I should, but I'm more interested in the character parts. They're more fun, challenging and interesting.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

Actors are investigators.