Britt Robertson Quotes

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

As an actor, you go in your own personal life and pull from your personal life, so that's what I do.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.