Brett Gelman Quotes

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

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

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

Actors are real. It's a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.

Every actor has a method.

There's some actors that go easily between drama and comedy because they play the naturalism of the role, and they just have natural timing.

I'm not a Method actress. I work in the present, the day-to-day.

In the first 20 years of my acting life, I did not do any acting. All I did was to wear a jersey, dance, lip-sync to songs, and run after girls over mountains and in the snow.

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.