Quotes About Craft

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

Pacing is not the sort of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you write, because you need to make constant decisions.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love, I love our craft very, very, much, and it's a noble craft. We have a responsibility to it, and to the audience, and to the playwright, and to the message. I won't ever care less.

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'

There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

I feel like I know how to write plot.

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.

I just enjoy batting. I love it. It's a craft and I love plugging away at it. I guess getting to do that in a match was the ultimate pleasure to be out there and do something I've been doing for a long time.

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.

If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.

Financial independence could be one of the factors, but most 65 plus artistes in our industry wish to continue working for the passion they have for their craft.

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.