Jacki Weaver Quotes

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

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

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

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

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

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.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

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

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

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'm an actor. I love to create.