Richard E. Grant Quotes

I am so used to being up on stage and talking to my fans that it's strange to be on stage and be someone else. I can't look at the audience during 'In the Heights' or I will start talking to them.

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn't the conviction there.

People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

I think I approach everything as an actor first. I'd rather walk onto a set and just act and just worry about that.

I have no interest in watching myself act.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

I felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.