Norman Lloyd Quotes

Acting is my first love and I want to stick to it. But I would be happy to offer my inputs to a script, if asked.

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

'End of Watch' was 98-percent written, and I work really hard to make it look like it's the first time I'm saying it.

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

I love working with great actors.

I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.