Logan Lerman Quotes

That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles. I spend like 90 percent of my waking moments walking around thinking: "What does this character do? What is his relationship with so-and-so?" Always, really. Too much!

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

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.

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

It kind of varies. I don’t have a method yet. It depends on the script and the character I think I need. I’ve worked with acting coaches, researched roles, and channeled different parts of myself. It’s on a case-by-case for me, right now.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. So, if you know something's already happened, there's not a whole lot of whys and hows that go down. You just innately commit 'cause it happened. It does help with commitment.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

Actors are investigators.

The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in order to achieve magic. One way to do that is almost to provoke.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.