Greg Daniels Quotes

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person.

I'm a method actor.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds.

When I did 'Jump Street', I created that character; it was all me. I walked in and was just me. I could get out of bed and walk on set and be dressed.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.