Dan Amboyer Quotes

It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

I never do any research for my roles.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

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.

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after a while I found myself wanting to inhabit other people's worlds and lives.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

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