Rachel Weisz Quotes

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

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 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.

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

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.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

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

The worst acting is about imitation.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

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

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

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