Costa Ronin Quotes

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

I've had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.

I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

I was drawn to performing and to storytelling.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.

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

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.