Greig Fraser Quotes

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,' and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.

If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

We know, in history, people are unable to put different elements together and create gold, yet it's what you're asking actors to do every day. You're asking them to relax enough with the confines and restrictions of the lights and the cameras, and you gotta hit this mark, to relax enough to create what seems wonderful and beautiful.

While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

My rule of thumb is to always do what's on the page first. Then you can talk to your director about playing with it. Improv frees me up in a character, but I would be mortified if the writers who agonized over their words assumed I thought my improv was more valuable.

There is always a hesitancy with actors, and inhibitions can get into the work, so you have to figure out how to make it feel so loose that you can do anything, and if it is not right, that is okay because we'll do it again.

Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.

You have so much freedom as an actor in your character's choices, and I really learned to take advantage of that.

When I was doing 'The Prime Gig' with Vince, we played around so much that the director separated us like children!

What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.

That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don't get to learn.

Scorsese is a fan of improv and is always pushing actors to think up something that would make the scene more fun. He loves any idea that helps the scene be alive.

I learn from Kevin Spacey and Tom Hardy, watching these guys work, the things they all do differently. Tom never stops exploring and discovering, take after take. His mind never turns off.

It's part of the actor's job to show up with a head full of steam, to have their own take on this. So that way, you're not relying on, 'OK, tell me how to do it.'

I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.

We always try to leave room for the actors to come in and make discoveries on set, in their interpretation of the scene. The shot list is scaffolding.

In acting, one should look at the film in totality. Improvisations should only be made keeping in mind the limits of a character. Always believe in team work.

That's the beauty of being an actor. You're kind of a journeyman.