Scott Wolf Quotes

I remember once they sent me over to read for a show called 'Mork and Mindy.' I heard gales of laughter, then Robin Williams walked out. I had to follow Robin Williams.

I really do like being on stage. Compared to television I have a lot more control - it's a lot more relaxed and loose.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

Not once in my life have I done theatre. Being on stage is not my thing.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

When I'm on set, I never really get intimidated by people.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.