Quotes About Performance

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

Some people seem to think football is like theatre and that everyone has to play the good guy. But I think that you transform when you cross the white line: you're not the same person as off it.

I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.

I feel like when you perform in a period drama, it's so easy to transform yourself into someone else because the costumes are so different.

As soon as the makeup comes on, I transform myself. I like being an entertainer and putting on a show.

Even great actors who transform who they are still go to a really honest place; I think that's sort of that special skill that actors have.

I adore actors/actresses that have range: someone that can transform into a character that is far beyond who they truly are. Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp are amazing at this.

I've always been shy; it's just that I transform on the pitch. I'm a different person. Off the pitch, I'm another person. That's how it has to be.

I never had a thing for movie stars. I was into the guys who could transform. Sean Penn. Daniel Day-Lewis. The ones who privileged the craft.

I've had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.

When they say 'action' I transform into a reserved person and as soon as they say 'cut' I am Sanjeeda.

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other great actors who win big awards for doing incredible transformations.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

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This has not changed: always like the first time, very, very nervous. But when the music begins, you are in the music, it's a sort of transformation. Your feeling for the music is greater and has nothing to do with your nerves. You go out of yourself.