Lauren Bowles Quotes

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

As an actress, my best tools are my emotions and expressions.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

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.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

An actor has to embody a role.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.

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.

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Acting takes so much energy.

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.

To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!