Jeremy Irvine Quotes

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

I spent a lot of time on film sets with my dad at work, and as a kid, that's a very appealing thing, to watch grownups get to play dress-up and pretend that they're different people - and then get paid for it!

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

I live to experience different things. Part of what I love about acting is to live the lives of others.

I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

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

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought and my own opinions, but be able to portray someone else and take a walk in their shoes for a while.

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business.

For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.

I think, when you're an actor, it kind of enables you to fully inhabit all of the youngest parts of yourself.

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

We are not brain surgeons. We are not curing cancer. We are not finding the next cure for Alzheimer's. We are simply and merely entertainment. We take on and wear the masks of characters. That's what we're paid to do.

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.