Character Acting Quotes
Collection of top 66 famous quotes about Character Acting
Character Acting Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
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
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
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
— Ally Sheedy
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
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 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
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 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
