Alan Tudyk Quotes

I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past. I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. If it's well written, it allows your imagination to run wild and draw inspiration from that.

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

I think it's important as an actor to stay really ignorant.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.

When I got the audition for 'Big Little Lies,' I knew this project was going to be different than anything I'd ever done. That didn't change the way I approached the role.

I think, like every actor, you've just to pick what you're interested in.