Kim Cattrall Quotes

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

I love the craft of acting, I love learning, I love everything that comes with the new project; the whole process is totally intoxicating to me.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.

I've always had a process that I do before I even get to set or go to the location. I work privately, and it almost feels like therapy between me and who I'm playing. So I have this inner life that's there and it gives me a confidence, too, that when I'm playing the role I know every question.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?'

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts.

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.