Donald Wolfit Quotes

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That's very inspiring and it forces you to do things in a different way - to tell stories through your voice.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

Actors are investigators.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.