Matthew Lewis Quotes

Theater was such a different school of acting. But it really is a foundation of everything. It's where it all started! And I feel like I learned so much.

What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.

I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.

The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music.

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

All the world's a stage.

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

I'm a musician - music will never go away - but my focus is acting, and I started late so I have to play catch-up. So that means I have to work twice as hard in this game. But it will never stop, I think I always feel I have to work twice as hard.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

I've always been entranced with theater.

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.