Faye Dunaway Quotes

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

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.

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

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

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.

Actors are investigators.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

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

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Acting is what happens on the way.