Nick Gehlfuss Quotes

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I love doing characters that surprise people and showing what I am, which is an actor, first and foremost.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

I like playing a variety of roles and characters, as it forces you to keep challenging yourself.

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

I feel, as an actor, you should be in a position to mould yourself into different characters and should have the ability to change.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.