Charlie Hunnam Quotes

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

Acting is the most difficult job in the world.

As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard.

I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

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

I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent.

Acting is strenuous, both physically and mentally. But if you are passionate about it, nothing can be more exciting than acting.

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. I like the craft of acting. It sounds geeky when I say it, but it's true.

I've been in front of the camera a million times as a musician, and even directed a few music videos. So, I know a lot about spacing, focus, blocking, etcetera. So, acting isn't totally new for me. Still, I find it fascinating, because you actually get to be another person.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.