Lily Collins Quotes

Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.

What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.

As far as 'Jane Pittman,' I don't know that I could verbalize, to this day, what I felt once I got into that role. I did a tremendous amount of research. I need to feel as though I am in the person's skin.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

I did a film a few years ago where I gained a lot of weight for it. I was happy to do that because it was called for in the script.

In 'Begum Jaan,' a lot of people did not recognize me as my look was different. That is the big thing and it means you have gone so much into your character.

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

Acting is never really effortless, at least not for me. It requires a massive amount of work. But, there's definitely an added level of having to just create the whole thing again, every time. It's also a very exciting thing, to do that.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work.

I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.

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

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

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.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.