Tisha Campbell-Martin Quotes

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

My goal is to play characters that I feel I can contribute to and also ones I can contribute back to my life.

One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

I think it's so important when you're playing a character that you can't judge the person you're playing at all. It's a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.

I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that I could find real emotion in a person.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.