Dwayne Johnson Quotes

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

The way I prepare is through script analysts and back story. I create back story for a character based on script analysts, filling in as many details as possible. I also do a lot of research.

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.

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

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

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

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

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

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.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

Actors are investigators.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

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

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

We're very sure to stay in character, to experience the Sharknado as though it was real. That's what acting is.

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

I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character - not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.