Paul Downs Colaizzo Quotes

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

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

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.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

Acting is a mysterious process.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.

Acting is very immediate.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

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

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

The most important part of acting is listening. So always act like you’re listening.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.