Orson Bean Quotes

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

I'm an actor of the theater.

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

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.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.