Darius Rucker Quotes

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.

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 write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

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

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.