Graham Patrick Martin Quotes

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

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

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

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.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

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.

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

I don't have an 'actor cry.'