Jon Hurwitz Quotes

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I would love nothing more to participate in a real struggle to find a character, and really delve into and develop a character. That's why I'm an actor.

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can't just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.

I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to life. Every so often a talented actor doesn't hook in correctly to a character; or someone gets lost in a labyrinth of over-complicated thoughts, and the character and play suffer. However, most of the time I find actors either end up doing exactly what was in my head, or sometimes do something even better.

All my roles are character roles. On the other hand, there are those people who have an inner...I think we all do the same thing. You can't get by on aura alone. That I know. Everyone has to dig in. Everyone has to do the same set of, "What is this about? What is this character doing?" Everybody from Spencer Tracy to Brad Pitt to Jeffrey Tambor.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. We almost always get it as written, and then, we throw some improvs in or some alternatives.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

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

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

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.