Brie Larson Quotes

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I really consider acting a high art.

There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. I like the craft of acting. It sounds geeky when I say it, but it's true.

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

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.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.

There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting it on screen.

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

There is something special about being an actor and able to bring somebody's visualisation - director, storywriter and script writer - into life. It is almost like creating a person.

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

I believe each character you do, you should add your touch and uniqueness to it.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.