Ross Kemp Quotes

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

Nick Lea is a great actor, and doing scenes with him was always awesome.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.