Parker Stevenson Quotes

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working with great actors and great directors - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? But it's not going to break my heart if it doesn't happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.

I'm really proud of this show I did called 'I Just Want My Pants Back.' I was very proud of my work on the show and such a huge fan of everybody involved.

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

Acting's the best job there is. Pretending to be someone you're not is good fun. It's also a non-ageist profession, and you get to work all over the world with people you admire.

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

Cinema is an art form.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them.

Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.