Wade Barrett Quotes

I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.'

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.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage.

I can act... well, kind of. I'm comfortable in front of a camera.

Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the top, which I love.

I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

One of the things that make actors good is their capacity to listen.

When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

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

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.