Daniel Bryan Quotes

I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are certain things I can do, but when I'm bad, I stink. There's something about my shaggy dog eyes that makes people think I'm good. I'm not all that good.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

I'm comfortable in front of the camera, but I can't act.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

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

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.