Kelvin Fletcher Quotes

All I have tried to do as an actor is push good story telling.

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

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

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.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

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

For me, it has always been about acting and I will do films which are content-driven.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

I'm an artist - I'm an actor - so when I'm looking for something, I'm looking for stories.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

There is a temptation for an actor to editorialize what they're doing. And you can't do that with Pinter. It's almost like a musical score. His lines are so specific, but they can mean different things to different people, like an alternating current.

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.