Josh Groban Quotes

When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.

I think all movie love scenes are hard because you can't truly be as intimate as you would be with anyone you're truly with, and everyone's watching you.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Every time you go on a set, it's a whole different world, and I love that.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.

I love being on set.

I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.

Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.

In Sarileru... my role duration was 15 minutes. Since I knew the scope I didn't mind it.

My work is really simple. They say 'action,' I do my stuff; they say, 'cut!'

People need to understand that whatever they see us saying on screen, we are not doing it on our own.

In my screen test for 'Hanna,' I sort of pretended I was this sporty person when I really wasn't.

I reach on the sets ready to be moulded by the director and give my best shot.

I don't really have to switch on and switch off because I enjoy the process of enacting a role on the sets, all those mad hours of shoot and then heading home after work. I don't divide it like normal and abnormal life. For me, the entire process of doing my work and heading home is normal.

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

I loved being on set when I was younger.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.