Caleb Landry Jones Quotes

I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.