Clarke Peters Quotes

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

Acting takes courage.

As an actor, I love challenges.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

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

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Nobody is a perfect actor.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

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

An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.