William Jackson Harper Quotes

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

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.

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.

I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!'

As an actress who has performed in theater for over 17 years, my experience performing in 'The Color Purple' has been a truly life-changing journey.

Not that I'm in the stage of my career where they're offering me parts in 'The Revenant,' but I try very hard to go through the audition process because I feel like I learn quite a lot about the character and the people I'm going to work with.

When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.

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

Working with a full Hollywood team has been an awesome learning experience, and I definitely want to pursue acting more.

I've been doing theatre for years, but film acting has broadened my horizon.

A career in film didn't seem like something I could attain. Whereas I grew up next to New York City, and I spent my life going into New York City seeing plays, and I was a theater actor in school. Acting on the stage felt really natural to me, and I liked it, and I wasn't terrible at it.