Norman Reedus Quotes

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

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

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.

Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere to be an actress?' No, this is life. That's why I think I don't want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.

I don't think that my music without pain is good music - and I wouldn't know, because I haven't made any music without pain.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

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.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.