Debra Lawrance Quotes

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the actor does.

After 'Mulk,' I figured it's your voice that people are connecting with. So then my voice became of prime importance to me for my films.

As an actor I can bring the story, the narrative in each performance. If I can't do that, then… might as well give up as an actor, hadn't I?

I'm an actor, and my main purpose is to bring out interesting stories to life. If it involves a cause that I can be a part of, I most definitely will.

I don't think, as an actor, you should define what genre you want to do. Once you do that, you lose the sight to see the film and what its story is all about.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

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

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?