Barbara Sukowa Quotes

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

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.

One of the things about acting is you can always use your life. You have to recall how you are and how people are and how you relate.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

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.

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

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.

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

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

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

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.

I got a chance to act, and I have to say that acting is extremely fun and vital.