Ice T Quotes

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

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

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

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

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they're playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.

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

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

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

I'm not an instinctive actor.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

I consider myself a character actor.

I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

I think it is very important to be a method actor.