James Norton Quotes

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

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

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

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

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.

It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

You just have to play the character.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

My job as an actor is to live the role that I do.

That's what acting is: really make-believe.

That's what acting is, it's exploring conflict.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.