Alex Wolff Quotes

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

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 fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

To me, acting doesn't really feel that different, one job to another.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

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

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

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

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand.