John Sebastian Quotes

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

While I find my job as an actor challenging, I also think that there's fun in that challenge.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.

When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When a mime is not perfect, you see nothing.

People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.

I always had a dramatic flair. I'd like to dress up like a cowboy, play make-believe. But I didn't realize acting was something I had to do until I got to college.

That's the beauty of being an actor. You're kind of a journeyman.

I'm just trying to give the best human expression that I can to any particular genre, which could be comedy, could be drama, could be horror, could be thriller.

I just want to keep doing my comedy work because that's what I do. I made a name for myself playing other characters.

We are not brain surgeons. We are not curing cancer. We are not finding the next cure for Alzheimer's. We are simply and merely entertainment. We take on and wear the masks of characters. That's what we're paid to do.