Thomas Gibson Quotes

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

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

I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

Learning method acting might mess me up.

I don't tend to spend the whole day in the personality of the person I'm playing.

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

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

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

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

I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.

When you're playing someone who is angry and sad all the time, you get a little down.

It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?

Acting is a psychological profession, and every character drains you emotionally, regardless of whether it is an intense art house movie or a light-hearted commercial series.

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which the character would normally do. Maybe that's the way I function as an actor, and I believe in it. And that's how I try and portray a character.

Sometimes, even when you aren't shooting, 25 percent of your brain is still with your character.

I do take my characters back home. In fact, I am the reel person in real life during the entire shoot. This affects me and my family because I tend to be eccentric or irritable during these times.

I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn't mean that you have to cut off your true self.

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.