Killian Scott Quotes

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

But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

A lot of time, the characters I've played in the past kind of come out in me in situations when it's very useful.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

I knew that acting is like anything - you learn from doing it.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school. It's like going to the gym as an actor: every single night, you have to recreate the illusion of the first time, so you really have to listen and connect and stay in the moment for an hour and a half - with no breaks.

I want everyone to understand that as an actor you need to be able to play different roles, be versatile even in terms of your personality.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

As an actor, I love challenges.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.