Jay Duplass Quotes

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

Actors die so loud.

In Hollywood, a lot of acting feels like grandstanding.

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

It's a vain craft, acting.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.