Nick Cannon Quotes

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

I never act my characters - I am them.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

I think it is very important to be a method actor.

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

Any good actor is a character actor.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.