Elle Fanning Quotes

If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I have to make it mine. I really enjoy taking a song I feel that way about, and sometimes it can take a long time to come up with just the right touch. I think that's really my greatest talent, interpreting.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

There are some roles that are more still and internal and emotional, and others that are more physical, which get you out of your mind for a while.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

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

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

It's challenging to take on something else that is not you and make it very real and have others be able to associate with it. It's wonderful to provoke thought.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

Because I'm highly empathetic, it's easy for me to put myself in the character's shoes. It's, you know, finding the truth of the moment.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.