Jon Cryer Quotes

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

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

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

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

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

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.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

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.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

You have to find out how to become the character.

I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

My only job is to act and play the character truthfully and honestly.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

A lot of time, the characters I've played in the past kind of come out in me in situations when it's very useful.

When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.

For an actor, it's not like you have to go crazy to do an intense role.

Be it TV, films, or stage, I love substantial roles. The length of the character doesn't matter, but if the character is well thought, then I have to grab it.

I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.