Vinnie Jones Quotes

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

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.

My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.

Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book on acting.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

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.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.