Corin Nemec Quotes

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

I'm a method actor.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

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.

When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.

I don't believe in method acting.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!