Finn Wolfhard Quotes

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then being able to understand what the situation and whatnot is happening. And you have endless amounts of film to perfect the character.

Voice acting is very interesting, I've done several animated projects, and you have to make the voice reflect the character and try and do as much with a word as you can with a look in a live-action film.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.

When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down. Because when you're wearing prosthetic makeup, of course, you have to really move your face a lot more to convey things through the makeup.

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.