Lusia Strus Quotes

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

You have to like the characters you play.

When I read a character that I really, really love, I know immediately what they look like. It's like I want to 100 percent become that person.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.

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

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

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

When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

Whatever headspace you need to live in for your character is sort of where you stay in between scenes.

In acting, you have to fool yourself - you mess with yourself into believing things.

Part of being an actor is being susceptible to imaginary circumstances, so as soon as I'm on the set I feel like I'm actually there.

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 think when you're in the middle of a piece of work, there are things that bleed over into your life. You're spending a large portion of your day pretending to be somebody else, to tell somebody else's story.

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.