Trevor St. John Quotes

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being 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.

I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.

It's always a pleasant experience while acting because I like to surprise myself and the audience with what I do.

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.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I think people who are regarded as better actors must have better instincts because, at the end of the day, once they say 'action,' it's you who has to do it right. You can do all the research and preparation or none at all, but it's your instincts that tell you, 'No, I'll do it like this.'

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail.

The best actors just stay in the moment, and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.

I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

You can't really plan with acting!

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

Acting has always been instinctive to me.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.