Acting Strategies Quotes

I've got plenty of advice from a number of other actors. Me? I don't give advice.

People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.

My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.

The transitional period is tough. You can find yourself too old to play high school roles but too young to play the leading man. You have to be quite smart about how you present yourself. Your public image reflects your range.

I like to rehearse before blocking.

A couple years in [to acting], I recognized that I developed methods from being a stuntwoman for so long that worked for me that I wasn't aware of. And I had to become aware of them, because I didn't recognize that I could actually apply them across the board.

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

I never got any advice in acting.

One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability.

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before.

Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how to play them.

In this industry, very few actors can control their career.

The more you have in your toolbox, if you can visualize or have a moment to provide you a visual, as an actor, that's paramount.

I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.