Scarlett Johansson Quotes

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

You never know the depth of an actor.

Feeling and reacting has more impact than just trying to emote what your character's saying.

An actor's job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or joy, it doesn't look the same.

I think an actor without life experiences is empty.

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

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 still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

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.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.