Quentin Tarantino Quotes

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who's been a father would be able to act.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The worst acting is about imitation.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Any good actor is a character actor.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

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

I'm quite simple, really. I like to play and inhabit my character. I really like to inhabit the situation. It's the situation that intrigues me.

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

It's interesting what happens when you take on a role, I think. What happens to me - without sounding too spiritual or too hippy, I guess - what happens, most of the time, you do a lot of research, and you get into the character, and at a certain moment, it's like the character takes over.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.

Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what - you can pretend anything.

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

I've had to play characters who I absolutely disagree with, as far as their politics, as far as their religion, and their stance on certain social issues, I completely disagree with them. But I have to go in and find who they are and get to their core, into their truth, and have absolute faith and believe in that, in order to portray it. So you have to walk in a lot of different shoes, in that you can't help but have your mind open as a result of that.