Cara Delevingne Quotes

I'd love to be one of those guys who could be like, 'Yeah, it's really exhausting,' but the truth is I'm not method. I don't take roles home.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

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 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.

You know what it is, when I'm playing a role sometimes, I just tend to stay in that role. It's easier to maintain. We just shot a pilot in a very thick American accent. I feel like the character lives in me. Of course, my family tease me about it.

I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

I am not that big a method actor.

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.

The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

I think it is very important to be a method actor.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

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.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

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

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.