Clare Bowen Quotes

I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.

I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones. I remember when I was a kid, I watched an interview with Dennis Hopper talking about Jimmy Dean on the set of Rebel Without A Cause. Jimmy said to him, "If you've got to cry in a scene, you've got to cry. Make it real." And that's all that I believe in.

I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.

Belief is everything when you're performing something. If you don't have the belief behind it, then that actually puts a shunt on the character. It's like, "Does the character believe this for a minute?"

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible.

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.

If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I have to make it mine. I really enjoy taking a song I feel that way about, and sometimes it can take a long time to come up with just the right touch. I think that's really my greatest talent, interpreting.

As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.

I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.