Killer Mike Quotes

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.