Gene Wilder Quotes

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.

I take them both seriously - I don't particularly want to be an 'actor-musician.' I want to play the great challenging parts, to be right for the part, rather than just, 'Oh, he can play the fiddle.'

We studied so much Shakespeare in drama school and I'd like to go back to that. I'd really throw myself into something that would probably petrify me. Tennessee Williams. Something juicy.

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 don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.

I can be such a Little Lord Fauntleroy about what I even audition for.

I did audition a lot. One's agent is keen to get you into film and TV because there's more money. I was always getting myself into commitments to theatre companies.

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

I have always been dramatic, so I think being an actress comes naturally to me. I think I am pretty good at it.

I don't consider myself this amazing thespian.

I was really pretentious in a sense and was like, 'I'm going to drama school to learn the craft.'

Even more than the comedy thing, I really wanted to be an actor.