Josh O'Connor Quotes

When you're on set with Ed Asner or Melissa Peterman, you start to sort of exist in a different realm sometimes. You try not to let that get in your head, and you try not to let that overtake you.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

I was always a character actress.

I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

I loved my role in Devaki' and enjoyed enacting the character.

I work with different actors with varied degrees of experience.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

As an actor, I go with the flow.

I never went to drama school. It's a brilliant thing for the right type of person, but I threw myself in the deep end.

'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors.

I played a wide variety of roles.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

You just have to play the character.