Teri Garr Quotes

My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.

For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.

'End of Watch' was 98-percent written, and I work really hard to make it look like it's the first time I'm saying it.

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.

Working with any senior actor is a learning experience, so getting to work with a thespian like Kamal Hassan was a memorable one.

I always wanted to act in movies.

Any actor can be glamorous, but not everybody can be a performer. That's why I'm focusing more on the performance side. I feel that's what even people want from me.

I think good acting results when working together in a comfortable environment.

Antara Mali is a fine performer. Her role in 'Road' is in complete contrast to that in 'Company.'

The actor's life isn't for everyone, but it has been extremely rewarding to me.

I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.

I appreciate the level of professionalism and talent that I get to be around every night, eight times a week.

Acting is a learning process. And what you are doing in your early films is essentially picking up the nuances, the tricks of your trade. And somewhere along the line, you become analytical and learn to enjoy what you are doing.

It's wonderful when you happen across it as an actor, finding a young actor that is literally just starting out and you understand that to them the craft is the most important aspect of the job.

We wanted to incorporate lights and the like to really accentuate the music. We play mostly small venues, so we don't use it overboard by any means. The most important thing is the music. I think we do a good job of letting that show.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

I'm so excited to be joining 'After' as Tessa and to be able to bring her character to life.

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

I love acting in Tamil cinema. I have decided quite consciously to do at least one good film every year in Tamil.

As an actor, I had the most power than I've ever had before, because I was able to create and arc and pursue that idea fully, because as every new director that came on, no one knew 'Hanna' like I knew 'Hanna.' That is something that I knew inside me.

When you have a guest role, it's like being dropped into a show out of a helicopter.

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

Sometimes, you know how good certain people are and then you actually get to see them have the kind of matches you know they can have in front of an audience that isn't used to seeing that. Then, in a few minutes the audience is on the edge of their seats, just through the sheer craftsmanship of their abilities.