Simon Baker Quotes

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

I really love voice over work, because it lets you go crazy and have fun. You literally can go anywhere with it!

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

For me, if I'm completely honest, I've always loved playing Captain Hook, also because I've gotten a chance to play so many different variations of him, so I haven't just been playing the same guy day in, day out.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

I like playing a variety of roles and characters, as it forces you to keep challenging yourself.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

That's one of the things we love about being an actor. We get to change things up all the time to remain fresh.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

I love reading and learning. With acting, I get to put all that into my work and still get to do my homework and imagine I can do all these different jobs.

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

I feel, as an actor, you should be in a position to mould yourself into different characters and should have the ability to change.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.