Vicky Krieps Quotes

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn't mean that you have to cut off your true self.

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

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

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

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.

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'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

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 see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.