Vanessa Kirby Quotes

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

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

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

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

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

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

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

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

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

I don't know how to play a character unless I love him.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

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

You have to like the characters you play.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.