Louie Anderson Quotes

Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.

Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

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

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

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.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.