Michael Ian Black Quotes

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.'

I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth in school. As a young actor, you're always mystified and intrigued by such brilliant work. To actually have the chance to be involved in this production was a wonderful thing for me.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.

Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

I did all the musicals in high school, and I loved it. And then I got to theater school at college, and was like, "No, I'm a serious actor. I want to do Shakespeare. I want to do classical theater." I took myself very seriously.

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor.

I mean I was very shy but I was also very extroverted because I was doing plays. I'd been doing plays since I was a little kid. But, I did feel like an outsider because I went to like a 'college-prep' kind of high school that had a really big football team and was known for its program so I was like this weird boy that did plays.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.