I love acting, but it's all just a bonus. Read Summary
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people. Read Summary
I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom. Read Summary
I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg. Read Summary
On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper. Read Summary
For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers. Read Summary
Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms. Read Summary
All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me. Read Summary
I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life. Read Summary
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally. Read Summary
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. Read Summary
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person. Read Summary
Comedy is acting out optimism. Read Summary
My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household. Read Summary
It takes a smart man to play dumb. Read Summary
There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. Read Summary
Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy. Read Summary
It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it. Read Summary
And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. Read Summary
Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. Read Summary