Nicholas Brendon Quotes

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

When I did 'Jump Street', I created that character; it was all me. I walked in and was just me. I could get out of bed and walk on set and be dressed.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.

Before I started acting, I'd never wear makeup.

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

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

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.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

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

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

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'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

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

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.