James Duval Quotes

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

I mean, I am my own fantasy.

I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

Those who talk to themselves are the truest actors.

I take a lot of enjoyment out of imagining myself as... I dunno... a wall. I keep adding bricks to my wall or little house.

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.