Ally Sheedy Quotes

If you're good enough to play a role with emotion and universal human elements, then you'll get others coming to you.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

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.

Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.

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.

Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.

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

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

You have to like the characters you play.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

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

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

I think the biggest compliment an actor can have is if people forget who they're watching and get lost in the character.

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.

I've played several real characters, and I've always found it very difficult because you don't want to do an impersonation.

I get to pick so many things as an actor. Also, I'm a good observer of people and their mannerisms.

'Dogfight' is my favorite thing I've ever worked on. It's such a special piece, and I'm so close to the character of Rose. I loved doing it every night.

I really enjoy playing a challenging role.