Daphne Zuniga Quotes

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.

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

I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

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

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

I am the kind of actor who will do just about anything.

I think good acting is always character acting.

You're not going to find a more committed performer than Sandra Oh - to every single word, action, history that informs the future. Every little thing.

When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other great actors who win big awards for doing incredible transformations.

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

I never had a thing for movie stars. I was into the guys who could transform. Sean Penn. Daniel Day-Lewis. The ones who privileged the craft.

Sometimes you read things that people don't even notice in a performance, that you just are moved by or understand that this actor is really living his or her life on the screen. The first time I realized that was when I watched Brando in 'On the Waterfront.'

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.