Matt Ross Quotes

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

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

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

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 think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

When I do a film, it is about how I become a character.

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

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

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

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.

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

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.

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

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

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.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

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 I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down. Because when you're wearing prosthetic makeup, of course, you have to really move your face a lot more to convey things through the makeup.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.