Tom Holland Quotes

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

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

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

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

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

Instantly when I'm acting, I kick into Frank Agnew face.

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

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 act my characters - I am them.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.