June Allyson Quotes

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I figure out who I'm playing opposite, and I really do study them.

I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.

That's one of my little expressions. I never really studied acting so I kind of kiddingly talk about "building your circle" and "mooding up," because I really didn't learn any technique.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?'

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

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

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

I think with drama, at least for me, my process, there's a lot of thought. I do a lot of back story. I listen to a lot of music. I'm very committed to a process when it comes to drama, but with comedy, I think it's really about letting loose.

I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.