Adrian Pasdar Quotes

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

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.

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 acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

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

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

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

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.