Chris Sullivan Quotes

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.

You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

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

I like to have something to base a role on.

I learned how to act working in TV.

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.

As an actor, one should be aware of all their capabilities. This is important, as films are becoming more realistic.

Preparation is really important for actors; they need to know who they are, where they're from, and the experiences up to the point that we make the film.

After being signed for 'Madras Cafe,' I joined Jogi Singh's acting classes, where I learned the basic nuances.