Jenna Fischer Quotes

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

A really fun part of getting to be an actor is exploring those parts of yourself that you wouldn't otherwise explore.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

I think, when you're an actor, it kind of enables you to fully inhabit all of the youngest parts of yourself.

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should always be improvised. My favorite moments in any performance are when I'm just along for the ride; when I'm surprising myself. I know when I'm done and I think to myself, 'Gee, I didn't see that coming,' I've done well.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

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 like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.