James Arthur Quotes

I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.

It's the idea of baggage. When you hear about people in their 40s boast about not having baggage. I think having no baggage is your baggage. That means that you haven't thrown yourself into the mess of life.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

Romcoms are challenging, but I'm hungry for drama.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.

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.

As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn't lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.

Acting, according to me, gets better with time and age. The more experiences you have in life, the more you have seen, the better equipped you are to deal with complexity and bring out the depth in characters.

'Southland' was really where I learned so much about drama.

As an actor, I'm always interested in my characters getting into trouble, because conflict is, you know, the great determiner of someone's mettle.

I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes.

Every day I learn something new, and, you know, you go through life's experiences, and if you can bring every experience at some point somewhere in every drama or every story that you have to portray, you will come across an emotion or a feeling you have had some point in your life.

I feel I have a lot to share, I have stories for years, and I've been through everything, there's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't been through.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

I'd rather watch a character be good at something and be challenged - there's more to play in that.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.