Kenneth Cranham Quotes

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

A play is a passion.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

I just love acting.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

I always had an actor within me.

Acting is very immediate.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

I love being an actor.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

My job as an actor is to be visible and to tell stories.

Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back.

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

Actors always have opinions.