Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

I'm just not the kind of actor to take things home with me in any excessive way.

I don't take characters home with me.

I think when I was a younger actor, I did carry that stuff home. When I did ...And Justice For All, I was afraid to drop the character. But when you get older, you learn to go, "Okay, that's it. Let's go have dinner."

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.

If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.

I'm not somebody who takes stuff home with them, that if I shoot a scene and I'm personally impacted for days or something. I mean it certainly is affecting and everything, but it doesn't penetrate to some deeper layer. I'm in it when I'm in it.

I know there are a lot of people who like to get very involved in their characters, but I, personally, find it too involved. I just like to do it as a job - and it's my job to make it look real.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

You have to stay in character in between takes.

There are some actors that want you to call them by their character's name and they have no relationship with you outside of the character. But I like to get to know who I'm working with so that we can relax together, and it's more fun.