Anya Taylor-Joy Quotes

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

Casting is storytelling.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

The most vital thing for an actor to deliver a great performance is to be honest to the role he or she is playing.

Like any other actor, I also look for good scripts and want to portray some memorable characters on screen.

I believe, as an actor, I want to tell stories.

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

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

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.