Gene Wilder Quotes

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

I've always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I'm a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings.

I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, they're people that you love to watch just be themselves. I like to be a little bit more in control. I like to make something.

I always have to come back to shows to take out the improvements actors have put in. Laughs are addictive, and sometimes they're good laughs, and sometimes they're bad laughs.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

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've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.