J. R. Ramirez Quotes

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

The great thing about acting is you don't have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.

An actor works with their soul and their thought.

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we had to do on stage, stronger. We got very much involved in what we were doing.

I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.