Alicia Silverstone Quotes

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

Acting is what happens on the way.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.

I'm quite simple, really. I like to play and inhabit my character. I really like to inhabit the situation. It's the situation that intrigues me.

For me, that is the craft of acting: literally creating something from nothing.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.

I am very interest in the human condition. That is what I love about acting. I like studying different people and their psychosis. I like discovering what makes them tick. I always find that with any character I play. I need to find out what makes them tick.

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.

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

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

Acting is a form of confession.

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.