Melvyn Bragg Quotes

It's absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There's a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it's better for the audience.

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

There's something about Michael J. Fox that I loved when he did all the '80s stuff. His way of performing all the physicality, which is why it's so tragic now, but the way he used his body so much as well, I loved.

I love action. I love doing fight scenes; I always have. I love it.

I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you're like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better.

I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. That's double happiness.

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

The thing with physical comedy is that you have to actually try to do the thing you're trying to do - you can't fake it.

Johnny Valentine's the one who said, 'I can't make them believe that wrestling is real, but I can make them believe I'm real.' It would take him forever because he was just stinkingly boring for 30 minutes of the 40-minute match, but he would let people hit him as hard as they could, and he would hit people as hard as he could.

I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.

I heard people saying how, in a Rajkummar Rao film, people only watch him in the frame, and he could overshadow others. But I must say, he is such a good co-actor who always lets you act your best, because acting also has a lot depending on reacting.

Even if an actor might not nail the moves in a way than a stunt person might, I wanted to bring the character of 'Hanna' into everything that she did.

I don't like to use the word 'fake.' A lot of our stuff is choreographed. But there is a lot of physicality that happens during the course of a match and our careers. There's a lot of physicality that happens to us and you can't deny that.

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

I love to get thrown around, and the reality about it. I hate watching a movie, knowing the actors are faking it.

I work really hard on every character and do everything in order to make it look authentic.

Anything in which you're playing someone real does make you feel responsible for making the story as true as it can be.

There are very few actors who elevate a scene through their persona. Like for example, Rajinikanth does it with his style. He doesn't need anything else.

I am continuing to do lead roles and that is where I am actually headed, but doing cameos is also a fun experience.

I like to be very physical: Any sort of fight sequence is a dream to me.

I'm more of a purist competitor, and I enjoy the fighting aspect of it, but people enjoy my personality, and they enjoy that I tell the truth.

Acting is not about showing what you're feeling. It's about doing something. It's about what you're doing for the other person. Anything other than 'doing' is not grounded in the truth.

It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.

I want a part playing a really ugly geek, with no make-up and my hair all tied back, so I could just be a character without worrying how I look.