Miguel Ferrer Quotes

What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

I'm just thinking I'm just like a normal actor who gets scripts, and I read them, and... if I enjoy reading them, then that's what's exciting, then I get excited about the audition or the project itself.

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past. I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. If it's well written, it allows your imagination to run wild and draw inspiration from that.

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'

I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.

I think it's important as an actor to stay really ignorant.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

As the actor, you can't go in saying, 'I'm the bad guy.' You've got to think your reasons for doing what you're doing are good.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.