Kirsten Dunst Quotes

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.

I don't want actors to know anything. The more they are lost, the better they play.

'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that.

I'm a spontaneous actress, not a studied one.

I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for parts. I just go for it, and I usually pull through.

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.

I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

I like to believe that my actors are not acting. That whatever they are doing, or whatever has been said, would happen in real life.

I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

When I direct - everything I've directed has had improv in it, because I think there's something special in a performance the first time it's said out loud that's hard to recreate.

When we start shooting I don't have rehearsals with characters at all. So, rather than pulling them towards myself, I travel closer to them; it's very much closer to the real person than anything I try to create. So I give them something but I also take from them.

I love to get thrown around, and the reality about it. I hate watching a movie, knowing the actors are faking it.

The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.

With acting, you have to just tell the truth in each moment.

You can't really plan with acting!

As an actor, I've been taught to just stay with your scene partner, and whatever they do, let it affect you, be spontaneous.

The great thing about scenes that involve nervous breakdowns - in the little experience I have doing them - is that there's no way to craft it. You just have to do it, and it sort of crafts itself in just being incredibly messy.