Craft Quotes

“I'm not interested in being a star. I'm interested in being a character actor.”

“I think the work is the most important thing. I'm not a celebrity. I'm an actor.”

“I'm just a tunesmith. I write tunes.”

“I'm not a method actor. I'm a 'what do you want me to do? I'll do it' kind of actor.”

“Learn to act. And when you're done, learn to act again.”

“Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.”

“I am a character actor. I have to find a character in the script, and then I play him.”

“I'm not a personality actor. I never have been. I have been a character actor.”

“I think being a character actor is a little bit of a lost art.”

“My job is to be a blank canvas and to be versatile.”

“Acting is a craft. It's not about being famous. It's about telling stories.”

“Voice acting is acting. You're just not using your face or your body.”

“Every character has a truth, and your job as an actor is to find it.”

“Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.”

“The writer's job is to get the hell out of the way of the story.”

“Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you're lying and when you're not. And you have to be able to lie. It's a weird profession.”

“A lyric is a tiny play. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It has a character, and it has a point of view.”

“Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re a psychopath, is lying.”

“Even in the craziest of roles, you have to find a kernel of truth.”

“Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience.”