Josh Brolin Quotes

The worst acting is about imitation.

Acting is never really effortless, at least not for me. It requires a massive amount of work. But, there's definitely an added level of having to just create the whole thing again, every time. It's also a very exciting thing, to do that.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

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.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

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

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

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

The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don't need those techniques.

I think good acting is always character acting.

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.