Craft Quotes

“I do the voices and I'm performing, but I'm not performing with my body.”

“With Def Leppard, the guitar parts are very orchestrated. There's a real science to it.”

“I guess I've been training in the theater for actors to be able to do anything. To be able to play any role.”

“What you’re hearing is an illusion. A very carefully contrived illusion.”

“I have no problem with anyone being a great actor.”

“The greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people.”

“I'm a storyteller. I'm not a literary writer.”

“A story should be a verb, not a noun.”

“Excruciating detail is what great novels are all about.”

“I'm an actor. I was trained by the best. I'm a professional.”

“The way that I approach acting is that I'm a storyteller.”

“I enjoy the process of study and the process of research, and I'm not tired of it.”

“I'm not a method actor.”

“I'm not a very good actor, but I'm a very good reactor.”

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

“I am not a method actor. I don't believe in it.”

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

“I never thought of myself as an artist. I thought of myself as a craftsman.”

“The work is the most important thing. I'm not in this for the celebrity. I'm in it to create characters and tell stories.”

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