Jude Law Quotes

All 'Hamlets' are different, and it's the most overwritten play ever written.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that too.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

I got dared to audition for a play by my best friend Paul. He got cast in 'Hamlet,' and I got cast in 'Prelude to a Kiss,' and that changed everything.

The theatre is a world in itself. The possibility for creating experiences that move people is increased many times over. In the end, the best stories are usually about a battle of good over evil - that has never changed.

I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

You just have to play the character.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.

I love portraying different characters.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

Actors are the most important. Performance is what matters. Nothing matters more than the actors; they have to perform. No one else can give life to the characters. Audiences must believe the characters as real and the moments as real.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

You're out there to perform. You're out there to entertain. Whatever position that you're put in, be it a heel or a babyface, go out there steal the show.

It is not about being a hero or a villain; I want to be a solid and passionate actor.

Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth.

Hector Elizondo and Adam Arkin were two guys I liked a lot.