Will Chase Quotes

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

I really respect actors much more now that I am one because I realise what hard work goes into being part of the industry.

I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something else.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

This acting was very hard work.

I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.

When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

Being actors is a strange job.

At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.'

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.