Charles Bronson Quotes

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

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

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

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.

The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.

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.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

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

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.