Chadwick Boseman Quotes

Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

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

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

I didn't study acting.

I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.