Jill Scott Quotes

The worst acting is about imitation.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

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.

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

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

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.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

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

As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.