Howard Deutch Quotes

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a way to approach something in a way that's real and interesting, and also so there's some empathy there.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

I think every actor injects some of his own personality into his parts. There's a great deal of myself in McCoy, a great deal of Bill in Kirk, and a great deal of Leonard in Spock!

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

I'll be more interested in acting only when it has to do something with who I am in real life. More like playing a singer or musician on screen like in 'Aashiqui' or 'Rockstar.'

In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right - that's me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I've been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.

That's what acting is all about - it's all about bringing truth from your own life, and putting it into your characters. If you have the advantage of using your own life in your work, that's always the way to go.

Whether you're tall and you play a basketball player, or overweight and you play somebody who is dealing with the issues behind the weight, we all have to pull from real life to make those performances authentic.

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

I think acting's very natural. It comes from a place of honesty, and if someone tries to teach you their way of doing it, that could be quite damaging.