Roger Bart Quotes

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

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

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

The worst acting is about imitation.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the arts there. I sang in choirs and did singing competitions. I also did a whole lot of theater; I did high school, and then I started doing some community theater. I decided that was the kind of thing I wanted to study in college.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.

I'm a character actor at heart.

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.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.