Raymond Burr Quotes

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

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

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

The worst acting is about imitation.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

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.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

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.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.