Tom Selleck Quotes

I lack confidence as an actor.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.

As an actor, I don't know what I'm doing. I've never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I'm scared, and I just hang out. It's like being in detention - you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what's going on.

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

I've worked with little kid actors before, and when they start crying or anything like that, it makes my job so easy, because you react. A little kid crying, there's not much else to do.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

Actors are investigators.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets, too.