Carson Daly Quotes

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

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

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.