Kaitlyn Dever Quotes

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

It's kind of up to the actor to deconstruct the scene and deconstruct the character and figure out how to make it real. That's what I love about this job: It's sort of a puzzle each time, and figuring that out is sort the key, whether I'm playing a cop or a killer.

I'm very lucky that I have my mother - who was such a great actress - and my brother as family. Of course, I take benefit of that fact. I read scripts with them. We have discussions and I take in their inputs and advice about how to play a role.

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how to adapt my craft, which was actually very helpful.

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

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

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

Actors are investigators.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and to collaborate with the best actors and directors in film.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.