Matthew Lewis Quotes

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

When I started my career on TV, I never knew how my role or character was going to shape up or turn out to be. It was a challenging role for me and I learnt a lot from my senior actors.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.

Acting is my job.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

Acting has been very useful to me.

The great thing about acting is that, until you're dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time goes on you hope you get better at, and there are a lot of things that I'm excited to explore.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

I kind of dwindled into acting.

I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.