Adelaide Kane Quotes

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

When I do the roles, when I'm in the room and auditioning, I'll ask the director if they're cool with me adding stuff, or just improvising while we're doing it. And I would say, like, 90 percent of the time, they say, 'Absolutely.'

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.

I am an actor. I try to do different things.

Acting is about reacting, and it's not easy to do that when you don't have a good co-star.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.