Brie Larson Quotes

The greatest gift an actor can have is not revealing who he is but through the parts he plays. Unfortunately, we live in a world where everyone wants to know everything all the time and I think it takes away part of the fun of acting that we have to go through that all the time.

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

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.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.

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 supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

I always look so different in different roles, people are never quite sure. Which is the way I like it.

You have to bring yourself to a character.

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.

For years there, I sort of lived the character.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.

My first day on set [Bad Santa 2] was with Billy [Bob Tornton] and it was a sex scene in a Christmas tree lot and you know in order to make it great for the audience you just have to go for it! It was our sort of our icebreaker. There is something very freeing and fun about just playing make believe and it's just over the top and hilarious so you just go for it.