Enzo Amore Quotes

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.