Robin Tunney Quotes

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

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.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

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.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

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

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

When a role involves physical transformation, it helps build the character better.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

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

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

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

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.