Derek Jacobi Quotes

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

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

I'm an actor. I love to create.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

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

Acting is what happens on the way.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

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.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.