Barry Keoghan Quotes

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

My dream is to produce a generation of actors who realise what the function of an actor in a movie is supposed to be.

Every actor has a method.

I did a theater program the summer of my junior year, and that's when I really fell in love with the craft of acting. It became more about the craft and less about being a working actor.

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

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

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.

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.