Hunter Parrish Quotes

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

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

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's an advantage.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

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

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

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

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.