Steven Ford Quotes

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

I do think I'm a character actor.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I consider myself a character actor.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I don't consider myself a good actor.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

I don't really know what kind of actor I am.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It is something I do. But I don't want that term to limit what I can do. I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam.