Finn Jones Quotes

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I think every character that I play has a certain sort of tone or an energy level to them.

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

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.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I always try to make each character my own.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.