Jim Sarbh Quotes

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.