Zhou Xun Quotes

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

Acting to me is always reacting.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

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.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

If you're good enough to play a role with emotion and universal human elements, then you'll get others coming to you.

Emoting songs onscreen comes naturally to me since we do emote in the studio behind the mike as well. But acting in a full-length Bollywood film is a completely different ball game.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

When I do the roles, when I'm in the room and auditioning, I'll ask the director if they're cool with me adding stuff, or just improvising while we're doing it. And I would say, like, 90 percent of the time, they say, 'Absolutely.'

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.

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.