Renee O'Connor Quotes

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

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

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.