Lucy Punch Quotes

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

As an actor, you want roles that are full of meat.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

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.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

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

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

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 find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.