Vince Vaughn Quotes

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

As an actor, you buy into someone else's dream and make it your own, and you don't lose sight of that.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

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.

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

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

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

Sometimes when you're doing fantasy, that's the most important thing, is to be a blank space, because the last thing you want to do ever as an actor is judge yourself or the character or the movie that you're in. You want to just play the moment as best you can. Juilliard helped me do that.

There are lots of things to do. Lots of movies to catch. Lots of places to visit... I try to bring in every real life experience into my acting.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

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

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.