Quentin Tarantino Quotes

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that exist in a book - whom people love and have a specific idea of who they are, and you kind of have to work with that - or people that you can take a completely fresh look at.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

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.

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And then you add and expand from there to create a three-dimensional performance.

With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I'm so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!

Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less abstract considerations.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.