Zach Galifianakis Quotes

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

Acting is about being in the moment and audiences are smart to know what is authentic and what is not.

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

I got a chance to act, and I have to say that acting is extremely fun and vital.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

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.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.