Trey Parker Quotes

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

I guess my interest in performance has evolved and changed many times over the years.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I study entertainment and apply it to myself to one day become the greatest WWE superstar we have, and it's a lot of work. So I write jokes and material every day... you have to keep people's attention, one way or another.

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.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

Acting is a mysterious process.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

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.