Victor Garber famous quotes

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
-- Victor Garber

#Personality #Theatre #Demand

After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.
-- Victor Garber

#Believe #Order #Giving

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
-- Victor Garber

#Believe #Acting #Where You Are

The only set thing I do is that I really, really memorize the lines. I've gotta be so comfortable with the words.
-- Victor Garber

#Lines

I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in a contemporary film, there's often room for improvisation and spontaneous things that happen. As long as I know what I'm trying to achieve in the scene, and when something comes up, I know that the response is genuine, I'm comfortable. That's really how I build everything.
-- Victor Garber

#Long #Trying #Rooms

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.
-- Victor Garber

#Joy #Way #Actors

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.
-- Victor Garber

#Growing Up #Children #Actors

I have no skills. The only thing I could possibly do is teach.
-- Victor Garber

#Skills #Teach

I don't collect anything. I collect people, I think. I'm very social and I like seeing a lot of people.
-- Victor Garber

#Thinking #People #Social

When I was a kid, I didn't collect stamps, or weird toys, or anything. I don't even have music - I don't even have a CD collection. So that's not really my thing.
-- Victor Garber

#Kids #Cds #Toys

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
-- Victor Garber

#Laughing #Clown #Hardest

I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
-- Victor Garber

#Ties #Littles #Facts

One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.
-- Victor Garber

#Talking #Laughing #One Day

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
-- Victor Garber

#People #Trying #World

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
-- Victor Garber

#Mother #New York #Moving

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
-- Victor Garber

#Missing #Stage #Feels

You can only do so much theatre.
-- Victor Garber

#Theatre

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
-- Victor Garber

#Miserable #Not Happy #Hours

I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.
-- Victor Garber

#Men #Energy #Complicated

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
-- Victor Garber

#Intelligent #Thinking #Demand

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
-- Victor Garber

#Character #Talking #Play

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
-- Victor Garber

#Fighting #Enough #Scene

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
-- Victor Garber

#Done #Tvs

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
-- Victor Garber

#Play #People #Done

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
-- Victor Garber

#Daughter #Mother #Thinking

I'm very serious about acting.
-- Victor Garber

#Acting #Serious

Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
-- Victor Garber

#Levels #Television #Life Altering

I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
-- Victor Garber

#Talent #Interest

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
-- Victor Garber

#Television #Able #Three

If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
-- Victor Garber

#Silly #Mean #Aliases

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
-- Victor Garber

#Distance #Feelings #Detachment

I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.
-- Victor Garber

#Song #People #Excited

That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
-- Victor Garber

#Strong #Team #Writing

We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.
-- Victor Garber

#Weekend #Journey #Together

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
-- Victor Garber

#Thinking #Age #Desire

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
-- Victor Garber

#Years #Firsts #Scripts