Mark Wahlberg Quotes

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I have to believe in the character to perform it.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

I think it's my job to like any character I play - to understand and appreciate a character, to look at the world as much as possible from their point of view. I don't look at it just technically: learn the lines, figure out what gestures I want to bring and play, and that's it. I like to learn as much as I can about the person, and see what happens.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

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 get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

I never act my characters - I am them.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.

In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.