Josh Holloway Quotes

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

Acting is my world. Acting is my life.

'Dinner' is completely scripted. There are some improv elements, but I'm not interested in pranking people. It's more like a play than standup.

Acting is very much my life, but acting is what I want to do so to be able to say that is a really fortunate thing.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

Acting is what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do.