John Schneider Quotes

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

I think all actors are professional liars.

I think finding a way to relate material to yourself can be useful to some people but acting for me is just being really good at make-pretend and lying. I've always been a great liar.

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

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

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.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.