Ellen Barkin Quotes

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

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

I make a playlist for every character I portray. Music plays a huge part in helping me understand a character. Every time I get a new role, I will take a chunk of time to just sit and listen to a bunch of songs and select the ones that make sense in my mind for that character. I can't even explain how much it helps me.

Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going to know that.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I think acting is a gift.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Acting is in your soul.

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

Acting is a really insular thing.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.