Will McCormack Quotes

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I've always acted, it's my passion and belief system.

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

It's my life's aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such a protected species. People see the glamour part of it. But there's so much stress that often you don't even pay attention to the luxuries.

I'm not a good actor.

I am a terrible actor.

It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

I don't have actor training myself.