Alice Lowe Quotes

I'm able to look the person acting across from me and respond to that. There are times when it becomes so lonely and painful, but I think I'm able to overcome them because I realize that the more fiercely you prepare for a role, the more the audience can feel it.

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.

I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that spurs the emotion of the scene. I too am afraid; I don't know exactly what I am searching for. On the set, we are all participating in this fear together.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

The real road, to me, was within the actor, within myself, within my own personality. How much Jeffrey can I find, and how much of Jeffrey could I access? What parts of Jeffrey have I never used for Hank or for George or Oscar? - and that was a delight.

I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.

I was not wary of playing a mother on screen but wasn't sure if I could do justice to it. Would I be able to showcase that kind of overpowering love without being a 'real' mother?

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.