Caleb Landry Jones Quotes

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not.

'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.

As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.

Funnily enough, I feel the most free to be myself when I'm not doing my solo project. Whenever I'm in a situation when it's a side thing or it's something not so infused with my ego. When I'm all over everything, it's a big responsibility and half the time leaves me in some weird nether state of insecurity and doubt.

The person is a mystery. What I'm playing is the person so I really get to tell you and show you and communicate to you who I think the real person is and that real person is me. The most important thing is to play the human being you are creating, which is my job.

I have to prove myself five times over.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'

I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.