Lil Wayne Quotes

I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

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.

It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story - there’s a technical aspect.

Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because you're finished with a lot of people's favorite part of the process, which is finding the character and discovering it, and then you get to live it.

When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.

Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

I am never happier than when I am on set and getting to act. And I can't wait for what is yet to come.

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.

I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not the biggest one, and you're not the smallest one. Everyone's the same size.

I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.