Melissa George Quotes

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

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

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

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

I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

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

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

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.

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.