Scarlett Johansson Quotes

I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

I also listened to hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of [J.F.] Kennedy, and I sort of built [ accent]. And then I got on set [of 'J.F.Kennedy' movie ] and forgot it.But that's what you want to do. You want it to just be real. And I think authenticity was better than - people always talk about when an accent doesn't work, and the phrase you always hear is, "It was inconsistent."

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

I'm a good mimic.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

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.

I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.

I want everyone to understand that as an actor you need to be able to play different roles, be versatile even in terms of your personality.

It's part of my challenge as an actor, not only speaking English but speaking Spanish with a Mexican accent.

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

I'm an actor that cares.

The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but there's no difference. In the scenes that we're playing, if we were to block out the scenes as actors in costumes, it would be no different.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.