Shia LaBeouf Quotes

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

I feel it's very important for an actor to believe in the character that he/she is playing and do full justice to it in order to convince others that you are the character you are portraying.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.

You never know how people are gonna receive you and especially a character that's so close to the fans in type...

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

Our job, as actors, is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing. If it's a situation where the character should look a little bit out of control or do something stupid, it's your job to act into that, in a believable way.

One of my jobs as an actor, regardless of who I play - even if I'm playing a despicable character - is to make people think that that character could exist, that he's real, and the way to do that is to make him believable. He doesn't have to be likable or charming, but he just has to be believable. That is someone who I could see on a bus. That is someone who I could walk past in the street.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

You know what actors are like. You can sometimes be like, 'Darling, darling, we love each other,' but you don't really know them.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.

In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.