Rafe Spall Quotes

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

It's hard; this business of acting is hard.

When I made my debut as an actor in 'Rock On!' I was confident to get in front of the camera.

You'd think that my acting in 'Lost Angels' would have been the reason why I gave up on it. But yeah, I'm just not that good at it. Auditioning is super weird, and I'm bad at it.

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

I guess my break in America came a little too early. It would've been nice to have a few more years to find out what I'm like as an actor without a camera on my face.

There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.