Simon Pegg Quotes

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.

In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

We rehearsed our 'Scarface' to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.

Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

I love being verbal in films.

Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

I've got a role in the new Billy Bob Thornton movie that Billy Bob wrote and is going to direct called 'Jayne Mansfield's Car.' I only have four scenes, but I have as much dialogue as anybody in the movie.

First of all, the leads aren't the kind of acting work that I like. The parts that are meatier are not the ones that have to have a romance.

When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'

I had a really fantastic time shooting 'Bad Teacher.' I loved every second of it.

Normally, when you do a movie, you have those mundane days when it's like, 'Today is the scene where I get coffee.'

All actors are protecting something, in their own way, that happens in front of a camera.

I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.

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