Christopher Lloyd Quotes

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

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

Sometimes you read things that people don't even notice in a performance, that you just are moved by or understand that this actor is really living his or her life on the screen. The first time I realized that was when I watched Brando in 'On the Waterfront.'

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.

As an actor, it's important to feel for the character, as you will be watched by audience, and when you start feeling your character, you share a sense of happiness and achievement.

Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

As an actress, my ultimate goal is to create a universal experience in my acting.

I never do roles, I play people.

A good content always allows me to reach the depth of the characters, and thus, the performance looks more relatable and truthful.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'