Aaliyah Quotes

For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.

Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk.

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

I worked with my acting coach one-on-one for hours and hours, every single day for two months, before even setting foot on set or putting on Jessica Jones's clothes.

I had done a lot of running in 'Texas Chainsaw' and sword-fighting in 'Percy Jackson,' which taught me to fall properly.

Even if an actor might not nail the moves in a way than a stunt person might, I wanted to bring the character of 'Hanna' into everything that she did.

Timing is a big part of stunt work and fighting scenes. It's something you learn in WWE, especially when they are really character-driven fights.

When 'I' released, I gave a couple of interviews in which I expressed my interest to play an action heroine.

I want to play a character that would require a lot of special training, like in a full-fledged action film.

Being an actor is hard. It's so true... auditioning is literally our full-time job, and then, if we are so lucky to book the project were auditioning for, then that project is our play.

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

I was amazed by the kind of preparation Hollywood actors do for their roles.

In drama school, I learned I wasn't as good as I thought I was. But I loved stage combat, and I knew that would pay the bills.

I was really interested in acting and thought secretly I could do it but didn't tell anyone. It was a quite private thing that I wanted to do.

When you're a kid, you imagine acting to be singing and fighting and like the movies. Then you become an actor and get the reality, which is often a lot more mundane. But sometimes it's really nice to run around with guns saving the world.

Definitely when you give a script to an actor, it's like dropping a capsule in water and the fizzing starts. That's when the thing starts to live and breathe.

My dream is to get a role where I get to do little bit of action.

I'm definitely interested in acting. I've done it in my past. I know I can do it, let's put it that way. And it's so much fun.

I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.

It helps me as an actor to always be on top of my stuff.