Scott Cohen Quotes

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.

I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that too.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

With any character, the main objective is to bring authenticity to the role.

I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.