Pierce Brosnan Quotes

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

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

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

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

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

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.

A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but there is a difference between the John Cena character you see on television and me as a human being.

I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.

Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.

It's easier to cast yourself in something you've written because you know your voice.

I am totally a director's actor.

I am not that cute. However, because I had played so many cute characters, I am starting to be influenced by them.

I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.

When I go on stage and perform, I'm an extreme version of myself.

When I become a character in a movie or drama... I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters of my own life.

For an actor, it's not like you have to go crazy to do an intense role.