Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Quotes

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

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

I consider myself a character actor.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It is something I do. But I don't want that term to limit what I can do. I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam.

I think good acting is always character acting.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

I'm a character actor at heart.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

I have to say that one person I learned from the most as an actor in my life is Emmy Rossum. She is so insanely talented in the sense that when watching her work, it just turns into watching her speak - it's no longer acting; that's how good she is! She just becomes the person.

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

I am not that big a method actor.

Forget about hair or our appearance. My acting style is different from my other colleagues.

For an actor, it's not like you have to go crazy to do an intense role.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

The worst acting is about imitation.

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.