Tony Goldwyn Quotes

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.

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

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

You have to like the characters you play.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

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.

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

I don't play roles, I play characters. There is a vast difference between the two.