D. B. Sweeney Quotes

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

Every actor just wants good writing.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

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.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

My job was to play my character in the best way that I could, and hopefully people will enjoy that.

Acting is a sport to me, I enjoy being in the ring and playing it.

I don't get bored at all while acting.

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that's when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.

I'm definitely interested in acting. I've done it in my past. I know I can do it, let's put it that way. And it's so much fun.

I love acting. I'm definitely working on all things acting.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.