Dash Mihok Quotes

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

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

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

I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

There are some roles that are more still and internal and emotional, and others that are more physical, which get you out of your mind for a while.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

I work really hard on every character and do everything in order to make it look authentic.

The great thing about acting is you don't have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through.

Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.