Joseph Morgan Quotes

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

It is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.

Being a perfectionist is really difficult. You're never really happy with what you're doing, no matter how good it is. When you can just release that pressure and be in someone else's work and still have the respect of those creators to bounce off the page and give your ideas that they can take or leave? I really enjoy that.

If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans.

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.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.

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

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before.