Max von Essen Quotes

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous.

Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

Acting is one of the two things that give me the most joy. The other thing is travelling. Nothing else matters to me.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.

I am very passionate about being an actor, and I allow my passion to find its outlet in the work I do. I don't believe that it can be called perfection. It is true that when I am intensely passionate about my films, which I am, I don't leave any stone unturned and I put every ounce of my energy into that project.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.

My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything.

I really love voice over work, because it lets you go crazy and have fun. You literally can go anywhere with it!

Improv classes were too expensive, so I just started going to open mics. And the day I did it, I did, like, three because I just loved it so much. It was so much fun. And it wasn't good, it was just fun to do. It felt like a release.