Phil Lesh Quotes

In Partho's comedy, 'Ami Montri Holam,' I am a minister. This is basically a play and a great actor like Jahor Roy had essayed this role years back. I hope I can deliver five per cent of what he did.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

I am an actor. I try to do different things.

The most vital thing for an actor to deliver a great performance is to be honest to the role he or she is playing.

When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

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.

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

I played comedies and dramas.

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

An actor has to embody a role.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.