Kate Bosworth Quotes

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

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

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

I lived my 'Mom' character. I became Devaki.

For years there, I sort of lived the character.

I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

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

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.