Javier Camara Quotes

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

Actors are very demanding because they have nowhere to hide. If I write a scene, it doesn't turn out very well, I don't ever have to show it to anyone; when you turn the camera on, or when you walk on stage, they have to feel like what's happening is real.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

I don't get bored at all while acting.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that's when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.