Malachi Kirby Quotes

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

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

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

Acting is constant exploration.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

I love playing complex characters.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

You have to like the characters you play.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.