Ben Schnetzer Quotes

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

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

From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

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

Acting takes so much energy.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

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

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

I played comedies and dramas.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I'm a drama nerd.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

The stage is my first love.