C. C. H. Pounder Quotes

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

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

When I first thought about wrestling, I thought about it as this foreign thing that I would have so much trouble accessing, and then, day one of researching it, I was like, 'Oh, I know what this is! This is theater. This is playing pretend.' It was really easy to connect to.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

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.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

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

If all you have is satire, your show will close. Even if all you have is comedy, your show will close. The hardest thing is not making people laugh: the hardest thing is building an emotional story. Any child can make a group of adults laugh.