Keala Settle Quotes

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think it's a wonderful thing.

I think acting is a gift.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

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

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

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.

Acting is something I'm extremely passionate about.

I think good acting is always character acting.

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

I love doing impressions.

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell.

The idea of an actor is that you should be able to play anything.

Anyone can play anyone in Shakespeare. I don't think there are limits.