Ryan Hurst Quotes

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

At a certain age you start becoming brave enough to reveal yourself and it's the revealing of who you are that enables you to dig deeper into different characters. You'll get to a point where you can say: 'I can relate to that', 'I know that', 'I don't have to make that up' and that resonates with people in the audience who can tell that you've been there.

I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter.

Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.

I prefer to do roles that I can relate to.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.