D. B. Sweeney Quotes

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

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.

I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

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

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

I've been on projects before where there's no rehearsal, and you walk in on set and that's literally the first time you've ever played the character, and then I've had times where there's been three weeks of rehearsal. I like both.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

As an actor, you tend to just look at the script till you get to your stuff.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives.

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

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.