Rashida Jones Quotes

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'

I'm not a Method actress. I work in the present, the day-to-day.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

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.

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

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.

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

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.'

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

The most vital thing for an actor to deliver a great performance is to be honest to the role he or she is playing.

Every actor has a method.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

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.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

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

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.