Eugene Levy Quotes

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

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.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

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.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

After doing films like 'Krrish,' 'Bang Bang,' and 'Mohenjo Daro,' 'Kaabil' is one film where you can't lie at all. You can't be a hero. You have to be real. You have to be yourself. So that was a challenge.