Ashley Rickards Quotes

Actors are investigators.

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

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

I'm a method actor.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

Actors are adults playing hide-and-ego-seek.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

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

Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

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

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.