Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing 'Gunsmoke.'

My journey has been that of a character actor.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

I've been acting for 30 years. It's a grind.

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

I think 'Humans' has massively improved me as an actor.

We know, in history, people are unable to put different elements together and create gold, yet it's what you're asking actors to do every day. You're asking them to relax enough with the confines and restrictions of the lights and the cameras, and you gotta hit this mark, to relax enough to create what seems wonderful and beautiful.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'

I'd love to be one of those guys who could be like, 'Yeah, it's really exhausting,' but the truth is I'm not method. I don't take roles home.

Most actors will tell you, when they've got emotional stuff that's hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to do justice too, it just beats your butt.

As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.

There's nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That's what it means to be in this profession.

I remember when Heath Ledger talked about playing the Joker... I always used to look out of the side of my eye, going, 'Yeah, actors.' But there really is a darkness when you are playing someone psychotic - you have to go there mentally.

I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me.

Everyone's amazed by the question that how did I succeed as an actor in the industry, which has Kamal Haasan? It's because I grew as an actor watching Kamal's acting.

You never know the depth of an actor.

Damnation' and 'Dublin Murders' are the first lead roles I've gotten to do. The more time you spend in front of the camera, the more you begin to relax in front of it.

Because I came to acting quite late, I kind of think one of the few attributes that I do have is that I try to be honest with the character, with the writing. I'm not a tricksy actor; I'm not exactly a scenery-chewing kind of actor.