Emma Watson Quotes

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.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

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

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

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.

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.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

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.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.