Jenna-Louise Coleman Quotes

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

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

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.

I think it's important as an actor to stay really ignorant.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

The real work of an actor goes on inside, and I don't think it changes from director to director - I always go for broke! But I don't get a lot of direction, unfortunately.

It's part of the actor's job to show up with a head full of steam, to have their own take on this. So that way, you're not relying on, 'OK, tell me how to do it.'

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past. I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. If it's well written, it allows your imagination to run wild and draw inspiration from that.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

I don't prepare for my characters.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

It takes me some time to get into what I am doing - since I am not a trained actor, I don't have that skill. I have to think of what I am doing and how it comes through.

As an actor, I go with the flow.

I'm not a Method actress. I work in the present, the day-to-day.

The real challenge of acting for me, I suppose, is just getting to know a character very, very well and just applying what I know about them to every single scene. That's what it can be broken down to.