John Lasseter Quotes

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

As an actor, I always feel that each and every character in my films has to be distinct. The character Thilak that I play in 'Kavan' will be one such unique role in my career.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.

I consider it an actor going to work with other actors. It's not a competitive sport, it's not to outact anybody else, sorta thing, you can be a bad actor but you don't outact anybody, you just bring your character as best as you can.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

It depends on the story and the filmmaker. And it depends on the character, and the heart and soul of the person that I see on the page, and if it resonates with something that I think I can summon in myself.

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.