Jerry Van Dyke Quotes

I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

My career is as an actress. I am an actress playing a comedienne.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

I don't know what my next dream role gig is, but I have so, so many shows that I'm like, 'Oh my God, can I guest star on 'New Girl?' Like, that would be amazing!'

Casting is storytelling.

I never played an ingenue.

I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of the class that I was going to be an actor. It was just the bizarrest thing, but it just felt like home.

My husband and I are both actors; we're obviously dramatic.

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.