Jonathan Pryce Quotes

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

I think when you're in the middle of a piece of work, there are things that bleed over into your life. You're spending a large portion of your day pretending to be somebody else, to tell somebody else's story.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

Sometimes I get into the movies and into the roles; it's hard for me to move on.

If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

You can't identify 100% with your character.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

For years there, I sort of lived the character.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.