Storm Reid Quotes

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

I try to have a true line in every character I play.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

To give a successful character portrayal on stage or on film, the part has to be played inside of you.

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.