Rich Cohen Quotes

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

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

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

Any good actor is a character actor.

I think good acting is always character acting.

I think younger fans can't quite grasp that's what you do as an actor. They're like, 'It doesn't make sense. How can he talk like this when he talks like that on the show!' It's really cute, actually.

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.

Al Pacino, De Niro, Daniel Day Lewis - they're the best out there because everything they do comes from a very honest place.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

I'm not very actorish. I don't play actor 24 hours a day. When the job is done, I go on to be myself, whoever that is.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

I don't consider myself a good actor.