Steven Michael Quezada Quotes

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors. If we've created a really juicy role, it just feels like a fantastic actor should be playing the part. If it's a long enough part, we consider anyone. If it's a single episode, we don't usually let a single actor on. Because that' s just stunting.

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

I'm really proud of this show I did called 'I Just Want My Pants Back.' I was very proud of my work on the show and such a huge fan of everybody involved.

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as 'The Slap' has, that's great. The sense I get is that it's not about me or my performance. More than anything it's the subject matter that people are focused on.'

It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

I enjoyed the drama of 'One Tree Hill,' and the opportunity to be one of the comedic aspects, initially.

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

When my career started on daytime soaps, those characters usually didn't have much depth to them. The main goal was to memorize my lines in order to film efficiently the next day. But with 'Jane The Virgin,' the writing is strong, and everything is intentional.

I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.

I would like to do a nice comedy/drama feature with a good part, but nobody's asked me to do a film. Maybe it's because they don't know what to do with a guy in a dress.

I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.'

I loved working on 'Boardwalk.' I had a very limited run on it, but I did love it and that was quality television.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

I'd love to do something totally different on TV like a period drama, but if I did go back to soap acting, then it would have to be with 'EastEnders.' I just couldn't go anywhere else.

'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.

In TV, you get so many different opportunities, and especially, you get to try something different you don't get to do as a normal person, then great.

Cinema has given me everything in life, and I will continue acting till the end.