Craft Quotes

“My job is to interpret. I'm not a creator. I'm an interpreter.”

“I think it's important to be an actor. It's a craft. It's a commitment.”

“To be a character actor is to be open to all possibilities.”

“What's important is to be able to be a good actor and not just be a star.”

“I'm not a method actor. I don't believe in it. I'm a 'get up and do it' actor.”

“I think the job of an actor is to serve the story.”

“If you're an actor, you should be able to turn your hand to anything.”

“I think the best thing about being an actor is that you get to be a lot of different people.”

“My acting is a bit like a chameleon. I can adapt to any situation.”

“Structure is the most important thing in writing.”

“I like to think of myself as a plastic surgeon with a knife.”

“An actor is a puppet.”

“I always enjoyed the craft of acting.”

“I've always been drawn to the technical side of things, the engineering and producing. It’s about crafting the sound.”

“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”

“La voz es un instrumento que hay que cuidar todos los días.”

“Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they're clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.”

“I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be about myself.”

“I'm not a method actor. I'm a boy from New York who likes to do accents. I like to study people and places and things. I like to work hard.”

“I don't think you can be a good poet without being a good reader of poetry.”