Constance Wu Quotes

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

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.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

Actors incorporate certain emotions from our own lives in order to create characters, and emotions come from experience.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

When I get into the shoes of any character, I work on getting the perfect look.

I use my hands a lot while acting.