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Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome. — Thomas Jones

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way. — Catherine Mary Stewart

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles. — Ryan Reynolds

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me. — Billy Bob Thornton

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place. — Jeffrey Eugenides

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life. — Stella Adler

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong. — Colin Firth

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me. — Fran Kranz

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person. — Robin Williams

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes. — David Crabb

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did. — John Boyega

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character. — Denzel Whitaker

Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me. — Vanessa Hudgens

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play. — Kellan Lutz

Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe. — Kirk Douglas

To be too knowing is a downfall. — Laura Linney

The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one. — Ann Whitman

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse. — Jennifer Lawrence

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!' — Melissa McBride

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself. — Michael Shurtleff

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp. — Tom Holland

If you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority ... — John Geddes

It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence. — William H. Macy

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing. — Pauley Perrette

When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character. — Giancarlo Esposito

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it. — Ving Rhames

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character. — Kevin Hart

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting. — Jim Jarmusch

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines. — Quvenzhane Wallis

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character. — Hill Harper

Acting is not just impersonating your character. — Michelle Yeoh

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. — Vittorio Gassman

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character. — Riz Ahmed

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character. — John Larroquette

With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings." — Taryn Manning

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting. — Malin Akerman

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all. — Dakota Fanning

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting. — Asa Butterfield

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them. — Michael Shurtleff

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself. — Carrie Underwood

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character. — Jack Dee

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character. — Ally Sheedy

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting. — Clive Owen

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting. — Matthew Lillard

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself. — John Leguizamo

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts. — Robert Redford

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything. — Andy Serkis

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play. — Julianna Margulies

I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.' — Michael Steger

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it. — Rooney Mara

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic. — Rose Byrne

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character. — Ron Silver

I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor. — Anna Maxwell Martin

I love acting ... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted. — Amanda Tapping

My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft. — Nina Conti

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.' — CJ Adams

I get some acting jobs. I like it other than the constant slipping in and out of character. — Andy Kindler

I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat. — River Phoenix

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. — Henry David Thoreau

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities. — Denzel Whitaker

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting. — Steve Buscemi

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. — Aaliyah

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character. — Quentin Tarantino

I think good acting is always character acting. — William Sadler

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious. — Joan Cusack

Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act. — Liv Ullmann