Tom Holland Quotes

The number one job of an actor is to be a character and never let the acting show.

Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

I want everyone to understand that as an actor you need to be able to play different roles, be versatile even in terms of your personality.

If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious.

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as a person, but figuring out ways that you can bring specific emotions at specific times and have them be true, and relating to someone as someone that they're not, is a lot.

To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.

An actor's job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or joy, it doesn't look the same.

Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.

Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally different mediums. On stage, you worry about your voice and how you move physically. On TV, something like an eye twitch is what they could be looking for from you because it's so contained.

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

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.