James Marsden Quotes

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

I am a terrible actor.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

I'm not a very good actor.

I think there are a lot of actors who are excellent at cold reads, and they go to an audition, and they read the part and nail it, but then when it comes to the performance, they don't have something.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

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.

There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.

The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

My acting chops are awful.

I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.