Alex Sharp Quotes

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

I don't think once you book a part you should stop going to class. I think you should constantly remind yourself that you're working and that you're working on getting better.

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

I'm very serious about acting.

A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.

I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

Let's face it: I was never a very good actress.

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

I'm, like, the only actor in New York who's never, ever been on any 'Law & Order.' And I've auditioned for so many. The sad thing is I love 'Law & Order.' I'm really obsessed with it. And they always said to me, 'You seem like you're making fun of the material.'

I am an actor. I try to do different things.