Dominic Cooper Quotes

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

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

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.

For me, that is the craft of acting: literally creating something from nothing.

Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don't ever miss it when I am not doing it.

Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I'm paid to make believe. When you're a kid, you go to your friend's house, and it's, 'Let's pretend we're both cowboys!' Without belittling it, that's basically what I do - I tell stories.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.