Stephen Lang Quotes

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

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

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

I think acting is a gift.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

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

I think acting is a work of imagination.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.