Gene Wilder Quotes

Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.

As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

I learn the lines as soon as I can and then the challenge really, for filming, is to show up and be there and respond to what's around you. That's where the gold dust is. It's really strange, no amount of preparation will help you with the magic of spontaneity on the day [of filming].

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.