Antonio Banderas Quotes

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

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 you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

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

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.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

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

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

I think good acting is always character acting.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

When I saw John Turturro in 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' I realized that was the kind of actor I wanted to be.

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

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 don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.