Baron Vaughn Quotes

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

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

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.

You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.

It's fun to play a character that you can identify with.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

I've been told that I'm good at impersonating people.

I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

You have to like the characters you play.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.