Jim Cummings Quotes

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

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

Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

I love saying dialogue and creating a full character more than just being physical. But I always end up doing physical stuff in my roles.

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

To become a better actor, one needs to look inwards and understand oneself better. Then, you can create magic on screen.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.

It is a treat to do scenes where you silently enact.

What I loved about wrestling was just being foolish, so I studied clown. I studied clown. I studied the art of clown. I actually did my thesis on clown.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.