Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

It's a mystery, that thing about chemistry, because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever.

When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.

When you are comfortable with your co-star, it reflects on screen.

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

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I'm a character actress.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

Acting is in your soul.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.