Lynn Redgrave Quotes

I try to change my physical appearance for every role.

For me, changing my physical appearance for a character is never a problem. If I have to look a certain way for a role, I just do it.

When a role involves physical transformation, it helps build the character better.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

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.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

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

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

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.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

To the image of the characters, I do change my appearance. For example, I gain weight and I lose weight sometimes, and I grow my hair and cut it. Acting is all about physical expression, so I need to change my appearance for all the characters.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

I personally prefer being a blonde, but whatever it takes for the character.