Julianne Moore Quotes

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

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

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

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

I've taken that with me since working with him; in order to be William Hurt, you have use every moment like he does.

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

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

Forget about hair or our appearance. My acting style is different from my other colleagues.

For an actor, it's not like you have to go crazy to do an intense role.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

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

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

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

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

The worst acting is about imitation.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

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.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.