Joseph Mazzello Quotes

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.

When I'm doing a role the one thing I ask is 'Is this believable? am I being truthful?'

I was trying to play as real possible - I wanted everything to be real.

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

One of the first things I do when I step onto a set is I scan the set and try to take in every detail, because what I'm trying to find are tools that I can use to incorporate myself into the space and tools that I can use to make the performance authentic and to build on the authenticity of that.

I like to believe that my actors are not acting. That whatever they are doing, or whatever has been said, would happen in real life.

I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

With acting, you have to just tell the truth in each moment.

Over-articulation kills the character because it becomes one thing and that is not how it happens in life and it is not beautiful to watch on screen either.