Eddie Redmayne Quotes

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

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

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

The great thing about acting is that, until you're dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time goes on you hope you get better at, and there are a lot of things that I'm excited to explore.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.'

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

I love acting. Modeling is fun, too, but I feel like there is more room to stretch yourself and open yourself up to new experiences with acting. That's why I got into acting in the first place.

I learnt that an actor should be willing to take risks, try new things and unlearn stuff.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. We almost always get it as written, and then, we throw some improvs in or some alternatives.

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else's lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

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.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

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