Hugh Skinner Quotes

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

I don't prepare myself for any character unless it is really different.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

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.

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

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

There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.