Derek Magyar Quotes

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

As an actress, you have to be very naive.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

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

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

In my screen test for 'Hanna,' I sort of pretended I was this sporty person when I really wasn't.

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

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

For me, acting is doing.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.