Roberto Aguire Quotes

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.

As an actor, you need to grow and experience things. What you experience in life is what is going to help you and your art.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.

I like meeting people from other walks of life and finding out about other worlds, and knowing that I'm fairly adept at one world and really stupid in many others.

I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.