10 Quotes by Tom Irwin

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.

I think theater is a great training ground; I think it's a great opportunity to play.

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.

It's just a very different process from maybe working one or two days a week doing one or two scenes a day versus sustaining a performance over two hours or so eight times a week.

I was informed that I either agreed with the administration's policy, I was a team player, or I wasn't on the team. I took an oath and that oath was to do what's best for Alaskans, and that's what I did. I could no longer be on the team under those conditions.

When a deal comes out, we will hear how tough the negotiations were and how hard we had to work to get to this deal. We're going to hear ... how much we're going to make. I worry that we won't know what we could have made. That's up to you all.

I've been taught to negotiate differently. You're playing or dealing with some of the very best in the world ... and they certainly don't mind using leverage.