Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Quotes

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

A lot of actors look at scripts and think, 'How will this stretch me as an actor?' But I always thought, 'Do I want to turn the page? Is this going to make people laugh?'

I am open to any good script and the character I can do justice to.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.' I want to get the dialogue just spot-on.