Gerard Butler Quotes

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'

As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.

It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

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

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

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.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.