Zach Gilford Quotes

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy - I'm not saying it's easy, but dramatics are very hard.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I always thought I was better at that.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.