Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes

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

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

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.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Any good actor is a character actor.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

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

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

I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

I don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

As an actor, if you want to explore something new inside you, you need to do something different that you don't do in your regular life. You need to think in a different way. It is my duty to think like the character that I am given and believe in his mindset; only then I will be able to portray it.

An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.