Taylor Lautner Quotes

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.

I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural and what an actor could actually say.

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there's no bleed-over. I didn't need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the actor.

I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.

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 am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.'

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

When I watch a movie that I've been in, I'm watching it, but I usually remember what I was doing at that time, what was going on in my life.