Jeff Perry Quotes

I'd love to be one of those guys who could be like, 'Yeah, it's really exhausting,' but the truth is I'm not method. I don't take roles home.

When I have to do an emotional scene, I sometimes feel drained right before doing it.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

Acting is a psychological profession, and every character drains you emotionally, regardless of whether it is an intense art house movie or a light-hearted commercial series.

I've had scenes where I had to cry, and by the time I've cried for the 20th time, I'm exhausted.

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

This acting was very hard work.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.

I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.

I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.

I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.