Acting Pleasure Quotes

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

I just love playing good guys.

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard with Halle because she's a great person and very beautiful, so it ain't a tough job at the end of the day.

The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.

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

I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

To an actor, what is most satisfying is that you perform your role as naturally and that people enjoy it, and more importantly, you enjoy it.

I love the chess game that I do on 'Suits.' I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.

The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

Any time I get to play Dick Casablancas is always a pleasure.

The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have.

When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it. I didnt know I had any knack for it, but I really enjoyed myself. It was a complete surprise.

I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every day working with him was really a pleasure. And he's in almost every scene in the film, so the poor guy had to work the - almost the entire 30 days of our film shoot. But, yeah, he was really a pleasure, and I really love what he - how he embodied this character.

I'm acting for the pleasure of it.

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.

I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.

I loved the variety of acting: turning your hand to different things and bringing whoever you were to it. There is something almost amateurish about it that appealed to me.

When I get hired as an actor as opposed to a writer, one of things that's exciting for me is doing stuff I wouldn't normally do myself. So whether it's a kid's movie or a voice in animation or in this case - where I just get to be silly, it's a different kind of comedy for me. As a performer, it's a different pleasure than when you're writing or directing. As a performer, you're just in the hands of the director and you go with whatever they want to do.