Sydney Sweeney Quotes

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

I watched season four of 'The Wire.' They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what's happening through their eyes.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

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.

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.

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.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. But you don't carry it beyond the set.

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

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

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.

A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'

I'm good at observing people, physical stuff, which leant itself to acting.