Ross Butler Quotes

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

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

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

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

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I never act my characters - I am them.

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

I studied method acting for four years and I'm a big believer in the idea that it's not about the actual experience itself. You don't have to go through exactly what this character has gone through.

I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn't mean that you have to cut off your true self.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.