Ioan Gruffudd Quotes

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamorphosis into your character, and it just made sense to do it.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

I've done a few costume dramas, and people say, 'What was it like wearing the costumes? Did they really help you with your character?,' and most of the time it doesn't make any difference. You're wearing something a bit weird, and it's sort of uncomfortable, but it doesn't really have a huge impact on the part that you're playing.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.

The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line.

Preparation is really important for actors; they need to know who they are, where they're from, and the experiences up to the point that we make the film.

Thugs Of Hindostan' involved a lot of prep to be able to make the character look effortless.

A director really doesn't deal with performance that much, especially if you deal with great actors. Their work is the performance. What you're helping them with is all the stuff they cannot be in control of.

Abhishek Chaubey has improved my craft, as I learnt so much on set.

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

For me, it doesn't matter what kind of role I am doing. I just enjoy the process of acting and filmmaking.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.