Ben Schnetzer Quotes

I don't know acting, but I choose good stories and portray emotions according to the story.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as a person, but figuring out ways that you can bring specific emotions at specific times and have them be true, and relating to someone as someone that they're not, is a lot.

I don't think I was bubbly in 'Oohalu Gusagusalade.' It was a real character.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

I watched season four of 'The Wire.' They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what's happening through their eyes.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

Luckily, on 'Kyle XY,' I had great training in being tough and vulnerable at the same time.

Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud.

I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.