Henry Cavill Quotes

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.

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

One of my jobs as an actor, regardless of who I play - even if I'm playing a despicable character - is to make people think that that character could exist, that he's real, and the way to do that is to make him believable. He doesn't have to be likable or charming, but he just has to be believable. That is someone who I could see on a bus. That is someone who I could walk past in the street.

When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.

I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.