Kelly Masterson Quotes

I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

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

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

You just have to play the character.

I had a role in 'DodgeBall,' where I played a pirate who played dodge ball. I'd say 80 to 90 percent of my lines were 'Garrr' or 'Arghh.' And it was all about what the quality of your 'Grr-arr' was.

In Partho's comedy, 'Ami Montri Holam,' I am a minister. This is basically a play and a great actor like Jahor Roy had essayed this role years back. I hope I can deliver five per cent of what he did.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.

Do you know how hard it is to play a character where you're always in heels? Oh, my goodness!

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.