RJ Cyler Quotes

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

One of the things I love about acting is that there is always scope for growth.

People say that they like the characters that they believe that I am. But, I don't as much. I like the characters that I believe that I am not. Like my role on 'Law and Order.' That character unnerved people. And I loved every second of it. I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

My experiences and training back at drama school were very enlightening. I always believe in improving, be it kathak or my acting skills, and would want to experiment more when it comes to work.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

I'm fascinated with acting now. In retrospect, I was only beginning to chip off the tip of the iceberg with how far I can go or what I was exploring inside of me that I hadn't touched in a while as far as emotional headspaces.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

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

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

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.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after a while I found myself wanting to inhabit other people's worlds and lives.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.