David Boreanaz Quotes

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.

I think a lot of that is what helped me develop my character. I wouldn't say it was Method, but it was definitely a little more in depth than I've done before in terms of acting. With the other kids, we all were such good friends by the time we started shooting. Because of that, it allowed us to trust each other more to push the dynamics of the relationship to places which you might not be able to had you not trusted that person.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

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

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

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 actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

For an actor, it's not like you have to go crazy to do an intense role.

[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

That's what acting is, it's exploring conflict.

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.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.