David Rakoff Quotes

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I try to have a true line in every character I play.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

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

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

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.

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

You don't become the character.