Thomas Horn Quotes

Part of being an actor is being susceptible to imaginary circumstances, so as soon as I'm on the set I feel like I'm actually there.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I have to do some mental gymnastics as an actor sometimes, to remember not to let certain things in.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

I'm not a Method actress. I work in the present, the day-to-day.

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

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

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

I never act my characters - I am them.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.