Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

For me, that is the craft of acting: literally creating something from nothing.

I think being in touch with your emotions is very key as an actor, and I think experiencing life is the only way to be in touch with your emotions.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

When I had kids, I became a better actor. I just stole from them.

There are lots of things to do. Lots of movies to catch. Lots of places to visit... I try to bring in every real life experience into my acting.

I certainly always do draw upon stuff in my life. You do that instinctively as an actor.

Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere to be an actress?' No, this is life. That's why I think I don't want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.

I think an actor without life experiences is empty.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.