Michael B. Jordan Quotes

Now I like to think that I'm in my character's head so much that I don't have to substitute. I'm in the moment; I'm living in the moment. And if it's genuine, it's real, and if it comes out it comes out.

If I cry on telly, I'm genuinely crying. If it's a gritty scene it can come naturally.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

My face moves, unlike some actors' do. I guess it's kind of a response to what's happening internally.

I think I take away a naturalistic approach to acting from doing 'The Larry Sanders Show,' a way to put aside acting and just exist in the world of what's being handed to me.

I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.

I'm ambitious for is to not get caught 'acting'. I want to really feel the role and not let people see the process, or to let them stand back and admire it, because I think that does finally get in the way.

When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don't need those techniques.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

It's not just about looking shocked if the scene demands it. It's about feeling that emotion. You can't lie to the camera, because it captures everything. This is what I have learnt over the years.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.