Matt Riddle Quotes

I love getting to work with the stunt coordinator. It's like choreography, like a dance.

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.

There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera.

I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff's always my favorite.

My entire family, we were obsessed with 'Glee,' so when I got an audition, I was freaking out. But I knew exactly what to do, I had watched the show so many times.

In drama school, I learned I wasn't as good as I thought I was. But I loved stage combat, and I knew that would pay the bills.

Actors used to concentrate on acting, but today they are businessmen, too, and think about the numbers game as well. They multi-task very well. It's admirable that they have this ability.

I was trained in classic theater, so I love me some good old crying.

I loved working with Janel Parrish and Anna Cathcart.

I'm part of a great job where I get paid to learn. My first brush with the world of showbiz happened when I got selected while I auditioned for 'Dhoom Machao Dhoom' at my college in Delhi.

Every time you play a different role with different actors in different locations, you're developing a greater level of comfort in the act of doing this, which is why you're getting better all the time.

I can imagine Dad joking about how hard it'd be to get an actor to give back when it's hard enough to ask them to give a good performance.

My uncle is an actor, my dad is a producer, so they asked me if I was interested, and I was like, 'How can someone act in front of so many people with lights and emote.'

I knew I am not star material. I cannot sing or dance, nor am I good for action. I can only perform for which strong, diverse roles are needed.

I love doing both animation and live acting.

I was always goofing around. I suppose having a father who was an actor made you think that it was a real possibility as a career.

The camera is no one's friend - you have to leave your problems at home and make people laugh. That's never an easy thing to do.

Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the language.

Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.