Charles S. Dutton Quotes

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.

I think acting is a gift.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

You don't become the character.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.