Caitlin Fitzgerald Quotes

The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

I'm able to look the person acting across from me and respond to that. There are times when it becomes so lonely and painful, but I think I'm able to overcome them because I realize that the more fiercely you prepare for a role, the more the audience can feel it.

I really love being a character actor.

This acting was very hard work.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

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

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

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.

There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.