David Harewood Quotes

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

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

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

Actors go into it because it gives us the chance to play people a great deal more interesting than we are, and to say things infinitely wittier and more intelligent than anything we could think of.

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

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

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.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

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.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.