Quentin Tarantino Quotes

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre.

An actor can give his best shot but the script and dialogues have to have punch to make it more effective.

Good actors can make a huge difference to a scene that might sound or read flat.

Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.

I believe how a character eventually turns out is completely attributable to an actor. Even with a meaty role, if I am enacting it as an accessory, I will look like an accessory.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.