Jason Fuchs Quotes

I didn't study interviews. I studied acting.

It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

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

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.

Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

A role like I had on 'Parks and Rec,' to me, is very easy to understand, and that's something that I can do with my eyes closed.

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

Good acting is really excellent carpentry.

I am always interested in good performance, always tried to improve my skill as an actor.

Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher.

The thing that I didn't take into consideration is that acting, like wrestling, is a skill.

As a good actor, I think you need to know camera, dubbing etc.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

I love saying dialogue and creating a full character more than just being physical. But I always end up doing physical stuff in my roles.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.