Rutger Hauer Quotes

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

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.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

If the actor believes in the moment, the audience believes in it, too.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

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

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

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.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

It's like fiction - the fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind. You go through heavy emotional responses to these stories, and wrestling is a similar thing - but it's happening in real space.