Diego Luna Quotes

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

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

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

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.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

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

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.