Monica Bellucci Quotes

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that's when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

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

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

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

Of course, I love chats with various actors about the process and how they do it. To me, if it's not on the camera, if it's not there, it's not worth it. It really just isn't worth it.

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.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.