Patrick Warburton Quotes

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.