Isla Fisher Quotes

I never do roles, I play people.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

I never act my characters - I am them.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

I am not into method acting.

I don't believe in method acting.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

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!

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

The worst acting is about imitation.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.