Trace Adkins Quotes

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

Most people when they see me cry for a shot, say, 'Wow, what a natural!' But I actually do cry and break down.

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to let go of while you're acting, because nobody wants to a watch a perfect person on screen.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

It's not just about looking shocked if the scene demands it. It's about feeling that emotion. You can't lie to the camera, because it captures everything. This is what I have learnt over the years.

With acting, a lot of it has to come from that real, honest place.

I don't believe in method acting.

Feeling and reacting has more impact than just trying to emote what your character's saying.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.