Matt Walsh Quotes

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

I consider myself a character actor.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I think good acting is always character acting.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

I never do anything for the camera. It's my job to pretend the camera's not there. I'm never moving for the camera.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

Al Pacino never looks like he's being filmed.

Sometimes you read things that people don't even notice in a performance, that you just are moved by or understand that this actor is really living his or her life on the screen. The first time I realized that was when I watched Brando in 'On the Waterfront.'

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.