Jill Scott Quotes

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

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

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

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.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

I like collaborating with actors. I love finding that moment where it all comes together.

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

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

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.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

When I was dancing, whether it was the music or the story, the question was 'Why am I doing this piece, and why am I dancing?' It is exactly the same when you are acting. You have a very close relationship with your body movement. You have to find the physicality of your character.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

Acting is a mysterious process.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

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.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!