Nafessa Williams Quotes

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

If I wanted to do something on stage, I wanted it to be something I could really get into and feel.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your character.

'Dogfight' is my favorite thing I've ever worked on. It's such a special piece, and I'm so close to the character of Rose. I loved doing it every night.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

When you play a daily soap character that character lives with you for a really long time.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.