Bela Lugosi Quotes

Cast is everything.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom; she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.

Acting doesn't suffice.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I always knew my mom was a good actress.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.

I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.