John Cho Quotes

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

I feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know.

I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters I got a chance to play. It's just always felt like home.

I think acting is boring because you have to sit for a long time. And being a director I am used to running around and being busy on sets. I lack the actor software.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.

I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting has never lost that challenge and excitement for me.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

There's something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C. Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything so brilliantly, but yet can have a really great time on set.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

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

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.