Sufe Bradshaw Quotes

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

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.

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

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.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

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

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

The best way to study to be an actor is to interact genuinely with the people around you and observe and listen.

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

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.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it's very immediate when you show someone what you're looking for, and the feedback is instantaneous as well.