Jason Ralph Professions : Actor Browse All Authors Top 18 quotes by Jason Ralph I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt. Jason Ralph shirt person pants boots Vancouver is gorgeous; I've never been to any place like it. Jason Ralph place never like gorgeous Theater gives me that outlet of being a part of the process from beginning to end, while film is a little more compartmentalized and is more impulse-driven. Jason Ralph end beginning me process I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder. Jason Ralph actually director company theater I don't like the idea that you're supposed to woo someone by doing things you wouldn't want to do on an everyday basis. Jason Ralph doing someone you want Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to survive. Jason Ralph survive saying something you I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me. Jason Ralph everything me shy way I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you. Jason Ralph value view think you I didn't watch TV or movies as a kid. Jason Ralph watch movies tv kid I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things. Jason Ralph coin far hand things I don't have any juggling or fire-eating skills. Jason Ralph any juggling skills You just have to do the things you love, and if you're pursuing the things you love honestly, for the right reasons, then you'll get what you want. Jason Ralph things you want love I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something. Jason Ralph think important work time I can't wait to be an 80-year-old actor. I think I'll be really good at that point! Jason Ralph actor wait good think Acting is a funny job because you're always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you're working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on. Jason Ralph you focus work funny I feel like we're in a place as a society where it feels like the problems that exist need to be talked about. And this generation isn't afraid to talk about them, which is exciting, and I think it's important. Jason Ralph generation problems feel society There's people who can, like, dive into material for hours and hours and hours and work on one tiny little specific thing without getting bored of it. Learning how to do that was, like, very useful. Jason Ralph bored learning work people Magic is really difficult to learn, and it requires sort of a fanatical eye for detail. Jason Ralph detail difficult magic eye Similar Authors Ian Mckellen actor Adhir Kalyan actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actor Bert Lahr actor Alan Arkin actor Alan Alda actor All Authors
