Elizabeth Reaser Quotes

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

It helps me as an actor to always be on top of my stuff.

I would love to get into acting. I really enjoy acting - portraying other personalities and approaching different levels and whatnot - that would be awesome.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I never went to drama school.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

Acting has been very useful to me.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

You can really get your chops in shape in the resident theatres, and I urge anyone to investigate them and to be willing to go anywhere to pursue the great roles.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.

Maybe I'll go to acting school. Acting is like boxing, you know.

Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage.

As an actor, my job is to go to the set, read my scene and perform to the best of my abilities.

I have been a good theatre artiste since my school and college days, but when I participated in 'Cine Stars Ki Khoj,' I realised that I could touch people's hearts when I performed.