Ralph Ineson Quotes

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

In a way, as an actor, you do all the preparation and then you want to forget it and just play the scene. As a director, you can't forget it because somebody will remind you that you forgot something. But you can know your plan well enough that you still have a certain amount of freedom.

My background is in improv and writing.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

I'm mad creative for acting.

I've always been attracted to acting as soon as I did my first video.

I reach on the sets ready to be moulded by the director and give my best shot.

A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

I like to improvise.

For me, acting is doing.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.