Will Smith Quotes

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

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

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

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

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.

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.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

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.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

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

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

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.

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