Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

The way a character sounds is so important to how you're going to play him.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

Voice acting is very interesting, I've done several animated projects, and you have to make the voice reflect the character and try and do as much with a word as you can with a look in a live-action film.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.

I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.

I'm a huge fan of actors, and I love when people find moments and a scene works. There's nothing more that I love than to go over to another actor and say, 'Yeah! You just rocked that one, baby!'

I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

I don't play roles, I play characters. There is a vast difference between the two.

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

It takes a good actor to sound excited every time.

Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.