Romola Garai Quotes

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

I can't act without music very well.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.

Can I be a leading man? I don't believe myself to be; I don't think that I am, but I'm in this place as a performer where I think about how to make things smaller, more subtle.

Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and hoping you're delivering the lines right with no treatment beforehand.

Acting and performing is part of who I am.

I don't get bored at all while acting.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

I think, like most actors, it's really exciting to be challenged.

Giving auditions is a great exercise. They will provide you with a script, and you prepare in 10 minutes. And you perform in front of 100 other people.

Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.