Bruno Dumont Quotes

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

If you've been in drama school for eight years, you've got teachers in your head all the time.

My job as an actor is to live the role that I do.

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

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I think acting is a gift.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

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.

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.