Kristin Davis Quotes

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

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

You have to like the characters you play.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

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

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.