Rachel Miner Quotes

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

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

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

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

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

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.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.