Bob Dylan Quotes

There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.

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.

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 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.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

Every character I play is me.

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

My job as an actor is to be visible and to tell stories.

When I play a part, I never think about likability.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

You got to constantly be in character.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

You don't become the character.

I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.