Jonathan Majors Quotes

I feel like, when I play characters, I create a space in myself that feels like the character and that doesn't go away. Somehow, you carry that with you. You let it go, but a little piece of it remains.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.

Ideally, when you play a character, she goes away with half of you, and you go away with half of her. And you learn something.

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

I'm quite simple, really. I like to play and inhabit my character. I really like to inhabit the situation. It's the situation that intrigues me.

My roles have given me a lot of satisfaction. I became many individuals who were so different from me and whose experiences were so different from mine. I could experience all their emotions, their pains, their worries, their happiness.

To give a successful character portrayal on stage or on film, the part has to be played inside of you.

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

I lived my 'Mom' character. I became Devaki.

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones.

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that's when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.