Jane Fonda Quotes

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

My job as an actor is to be visible and to tell stories.

I really enjoy being an actor!

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

I just love acting.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.

Comedy or villain, the role does not matter as long as it is challenging.

Films are my passion. I am here to act and entertain masses.

It really doesn't matter whether it's an ensemble cast or it's a lead or what is perceived as a commercial or non-commercial or an offbeat film. None of that would matter, what really matters is the story and who's telling the story.

Every time you're on stage, you're acting.

I don't want to do sing-and-dance routine. I believe script is the king, so I would go for powerful stories.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

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.