Quotes About Acting

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.

I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.

When I'm doing a role the one thing I ask is 'Is this believable? am I being truthful?'

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

There are tons of things I'd love to do. I want to do comedy. It's not that I don't want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.

I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.

I think the best advice I got is that acting isn't acting - you just want to just be, you want to be just real, be in the moment and react.

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.

In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is whats required to achieve what I want to achieve.

I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, "No, I just want to be an actor."

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.