Johnathon Schaech Quotes

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, at least I'm playing the truth of the moment-to-moment reality.

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.

There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.

Film, television, and working with a camera is such an intimate art form that if a camera is right on you, and I've got your face filling the screen, you have to be real. If you do anything that is fake, you're not going to get away with it, because the camera is right there, and the story is being told in a very real way.

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.