Craft Quotes

“My body is a tool for my craft. I use it to tell a story.”

“Actors are not there to be liked. We are there to be convincing.”

“I think that’s the great thing about acting is that you can be all of these different things.”

“My job is to be a storyteller. I'm a vessel. I'm a puppet.”

“The mic is my tool, the stage is my school.”

“To be an MC is to be a master of ceremonies, but also a master of concepts.”

“I'm a character actress. I'm the salt in the soup.”

“You can't be a movie star and do this. You can't be a movie star and do a play. You can't. 'Cause you have to be the character.”

“A good sentence, I find, is worth a good deal more than a good idea.”

“Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - are the tools of his trade.”

“The purpose of a sentence is to be a sentence.”

“A great lyric is a story packed in a nutshell.”

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

“I'm a character actor. I've always been a character actor.”

“Acting is a craft. It's a job. And I'm a jobbing actor.”

“To me, acting is like a religion. It's a craft, a science, an art.”

“The turntables are my instrument.”

“The essence of acting is the capacity to believe in the reality of what you're doing.”

“A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.”

“Actors are observers. They're trying to have a perspective on life, and then they use their bodies and their voices to communicate what they've observed.”