Sam Rockwell Quotes

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced.

Crying does not equal good acting.

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life.

With any character, the main objective is to bring authenticity to the role.

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.