Lana Condor Quotes

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

It's funny because, if you're not an actor, people always tend to say, 'How do you memorize all those lines? Is that really hard?' I'm always like, 'That's just a small part of it. I have to seek my craft and my emotions' - you know, all this gross, actor-y stuff.

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

I had always heard that theatre is for 'serious' actors but after actually having rehearsed day in and day out, I realize how challenging it is.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated.