Bryn Terfel Quotes

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.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

I'm good with a script.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in a room and you don't have anything to play with and you don't have anything physically in the room. Whereas on set, you have direction, you have costumes, and you have other actors to work with. It's a completely different thing.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

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.

Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.

The number one job of an actor is to be a character and never let the acting show.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

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

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.