Actor's Task Quotes

Making a fantastical world real is a bit of a challenge, for sure. When you're on set and you have a green screen you're working with where you'll pretend there's a giant lizard chasing you when there's nothing there. Being shown the images of what the creatures were going to look like and then having to react to them realistically without feeling like you're a crazy person. You kind of have to go for it. In order to sell it to the audience, you can't really hold back.

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

Four directors through their own interpretation created four different characters. And I had to play them in a fairly short period of time.

The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.

My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming characters but I don't enjoy becoming caricatures. The research I do is only necessary in so far as we move into other dimensions.

Even the finest actors will have great difficulty showing somebody's loneliness. To put an actor on a chair and ask him to do nothing and yet tell the viewer everything about the character, it's a difficult task.

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

As an actor, it's your job to switch on and off from the character.

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

It's nice to sort of walk in and at least create the illusion that you are, or your character is, a well-rounded human being, a complete person. Especially when you're playing these impressive, high-functioning professionals. You feel like you have to come in sort of guns blazing.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

It's part of my challenge as an actor, not only speaking English but speaking Spanish with a Mexican accent.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

An actor has to do everything, all genres of films.

It's kind of up to the actor to deconstruct the scene and deconstruct the character and figure out how to make it real. That's what I love about this job: It's sort of a puzzle each time, and figuring that out is sort the key, whether I'm playing a cop or a killer.

In a film where I am acting, do you seriously think I would have the time to keep track of the number of times I kiss my co-star?

As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

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.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't give you a lot of feedback so you have to do that. That's a difficult thing to do as an actor.

My task is to find the authenticity in the character. I tend to go with the script and tell that story.

It is always good to be cast in films with good stories and content, made by such amazing banners and directors. For an actor it's a task to work in films like these.

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.