Thomas Jane Quotes

I love working with great actors.

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

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

I don't go for glamour roles.

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

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.

I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.

I'm a huge fan of actors, and I love when people find moments and a scene works. There's nothing more that I love than to go over to another actor and say, 'Yeah! You just rocked that one, baby!'

A role like I had on 'Parks and Rec,' to me, is very easy to understand, and that's something that I can do with my eyes closed.

When I saw John Turturro in 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' I realized that was the kind of actor I wanted to be.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.

Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

Actors like me endeavour to look for great roles and portraying them to the best of our ability. At times, it's noticed; at times, it's not.

I did not know much about cinema and acting.

You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.