Peter Cullen Quotes

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

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

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

When I'm playing any of my characters, I totally go into the realm of the character. That's when I'm able to come up with the most creative stuff, and I believe that's what connects with the audience.

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.

I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn't mean that you have to cut off your true self.

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.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

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

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.