Eric Dane Quotes

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

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.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

You have to like the characters you play.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

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

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

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'.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

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.