Fran Kranz Quotes

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.

It's like my second home, 'It.' And I would like to return to it, because I feel very comfortable with it, and I have an understanding of it, and I'm passionate about it.

A lot of times, you land in a city, and you're like, 'This is not my people.' I'm gonna do the show, but you don't feel like this is for you. And then, some places, you just go and just fall into a groove, and you're like, 'This feels right.'

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.

I have learned never to judge any of the characters that I portay. Sometimes that is difficult to do because as a human being we tend to make judgements when we find out information about people and situations. In order to bring a character to life, though, I find that I cannot judge her or I won't be true to her.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

I think in the inception and creation of the characters, improv was the most important part for me, because I wanted to feel at home in those characters. I wanted to feel like I could commit to them. And so much of improv is saying yes and committing, so I think that's where the improv came in. Even if I'm saying yes to the X across the room from me, or the tennis ball on a stick, I have to stay alive.

I try to find something in everyone that I play - even the most heinous ones. You have to find something that is real and vulnerable about everything that you play.