Lana Quotes

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

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.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after a while I found myself wanting to inhabit other people's worlds and lives.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

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.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.