Louis Garrel Quotes

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

I adore actors/actresses that have range: someone that can transform into a character that is far beyond who they truly are. Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp are amazing at this.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other great actors who win big awards for doing incredible transformations.

In terms of pure acting, my role model has always been Philip Seymour Hoffman; I really always loved what he did. I love what Mark Ruffalo does. When I was younger, I liked Cate Blanchett a lot. These are all actors who are given stories and allowed to carry the whole story.

I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.

Any good actor is a character actor.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I think good acting is always character acting.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

I never had a thing for movie stars. I was into the guys who could transform. Sean Penn. Daniel Day-Lewis. The ones who privileged the craft.

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.