Quotes about Acting

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

I would want to do a role like the one Ezra Miller had in 'We Need To Talk About Kevin.' That is a real juicy role.

I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the author chooses, - if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be his pleasure that you should enact a poor man, see that you act it well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen. For this is your business, to act well the given part; but to choose it, belongs to another.

I just listen to true-crime podcasts, do some weights and pretend I know what I'm doing.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.