Quotes About Acting

My dad worked for a theatre company that was two minutes away from my primary school, so I'd just walk there after school and watch the rehearsals. I think that's probably when I fell in love with acting and telling stories.

When I do films, I get off-days. But, in theatre, there are back-to-back shows with non-stop rehearsals. It's too scary a thought.

Get your emotions out of the way in the rehearsals.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.

I guess I'm used to TV where we don't really rehearse. You block it out, and then you just start shooting.

I like to rehearse before blocking.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

You don't get time to rehearse in film and TV at all.

If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.

I don't really rehearse, because I don't really step into action until I'm forced to. The only way I prepare is just by memorizing it backward and forward so that when I get in the room, I can become the character and not think about the lines so much.

In theatre, you rehearse for months and then perform. That way, you're totally in-sync with your character, the other characters, and the story.

What's more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene.

Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty of a scene.

It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing.

You don't get to rehearse much on TV. You are kind of rehearsing on film. Depending on the way you work, that's either a good thing or a bad thing.

I don't like rehearsing.

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

I have this habit of not rehearsing a lot; I don't go on practicing my dialogues, pauses, and actions.

The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.