Barrett Wilbert Weed Quotes

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

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

With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

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

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

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

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

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