Ken Loach Quotes

Surprise is a huge element in acting.

I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

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.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.

You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

The best actors just stay in the moment, and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there's no formula.

With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

Acting is about being in the moment and audiences are smart to know what is authentic and what is not.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

When I'm rapping, I become very emotional, and people can feel it through my face.