Robert Englund Quotes

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

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

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

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

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

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

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

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

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

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

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

Acting to me is always reacting.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.