Liam Hemsworth Quotes

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it.

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.