Milo Ventimiglia Quotes

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

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 started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.

I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.

I'm an artist - I'm an actor - so when I'm looking for something, I'm looking for stories.

When I'm given a role, I'm consumed by a passion to bring to life a character that exists only on paper. I mull over the character for days and internalise his feelings.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.