Jared Harris Quotes

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

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

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

Actors usually have a lot in common with kids.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

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

When I rehearse, it ends up doing more harm than good. I think I work a little bit better when it's right off the bat. Mostly, I try to wrap my head around a role as much as I can without rehearsing and then kind of make it as fresh as possible on the day.

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.