Frank Rich Quotes

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

I've been on stage since I was five years old and I feel really at home there.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but there's no difference. In the scenes that we're playing, if we were to block out the scenes as actors in costumes, it would be no different.

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.