Seth Rogen Quotes

I'm comfortable in front of the camera, but I can't act.

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

I'm - you know, I'm not a good actor.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

I'm not a good actor.

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.

There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

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.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!