Drew Goddard Quotes

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

You have to use what you know to make a part real.

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It's a whole different thing.

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

You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action' and you're like, 'Here we go, we're in this thing,' because that's where bad acting comes from.

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should always be improvised. My favorite moments in any performance are when I'm just along for the ride; when I'm surprising myself. I know when I'm done and I think to myself, 'Gee, I didn't see that coming,' I've done well.

I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

The worst acting is about imitation.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

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 like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.