Mel Gibson Quotes

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Actors are investigators.

I go to acting class, and in acting class, I'm not the girl that brings in romantic comedies; I'm the girl that wants to do 'Girl Interrupted' all the time.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

It's incredibly fun as an actor to get to play different styles and different genres for completely different audiences.

My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as a person, but figuring out ways that you can bring specific emotions at specific times and have them be true, and relating to someone as someone that they're not, is a lot.

One of the things I love about acting is that there is always scope for growth.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

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

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

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

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

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.