Walton Goggins Quotes

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

I did spend a lot of my childhood playing out movie scenarios in my head. I'd walk along the road, pretending like I was in the army, talking on the radio, and doing maneuvers. I dreamt a lot about performing in movies and living in fantasies.

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

I was in character all the time when I was little.

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.

There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret her circumstances.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.