Caterina Scorsone Quotes

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

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

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell.

What I love most is the art, is making art, acting and being on set, and being a part of the process of making a movie.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

I enjoy being an actor in my own movies.

What I am used to is 'Gali Guleiyan,' and people talking about my performances, what new I have tried in terms of my craft or the skill of storytelling.

Acting is fun, but directing is very stressful.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

That's what acting is: really make-believe.