Rachael Harris Quotes

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

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

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. We almost always get it as written, and then, we throw some improvs in or some alternatives.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

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

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.

The worst acting is about imitation.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.