Pernell Roberts Quotes

When someone offers me a part, I say, 'Yes, please.'

As an actor, I'll play anything.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I just like to act.

After 'Peepshow,' I really don't know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

I'm actually just an actor.

I'm just an actor.

I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

Acting was always my first passion.

I never played an ingenue.

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

If someone called me for a role, whatever it was, I'd do it.

I'm an actress. I'm ready to work anytime.

As an actor, I am greedy.

I am inclined to acting. I like to act and I like being an actor.

I can't tell you the excitement to be in a new TV series or a play you've got to read for. That's the best.

I honestly never considered myself an actor. An actor would be someone like Paul Muni or Spencer Tracy. I was more of a personality.

My job is to act, so I just focus on that.

I've always been a bit of a clown. But I think the seminal moment was when I was sixteen, and I auditioned for a little production of The 'Wizard of Oz,' and I was like, 'Clearly I'm Dorothy!' And they were like, 'We'd like you to play the Wicked Witch.'

You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady.