Adrian Pasdar Quotes

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

An actor has to embody a role.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

Actors know one thing: If you're left just with words, you're in trouble.

Doing comedy and romance is easy, if I compare it with playing the role of a real-life person.

It's not easy, acting.

I don't play roles, I play characters. There is a vast difference between the two.

Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the language.

As an actor, you want convince the audience that you can do different things. So, if I have to run in slow motion, I am more than happy to romance.

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Acting takes so much energy.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

There is a temptation for an actor to editorialize what they're doing. And you can't do that with Pinter. It's almost like a musical score. His lines are so specific, but they can mean different things to different people, like an alternating current.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.