Marketa Irglova Quotes

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

When I was dancing, whether it was the music or the story, the question was 'Why am I doing this piece, and why am I dancing?' It is exactly the same when you are acting. You have a very close relationship with your body movement. You have to find the physicality of your character.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your character.

With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I did a film called 'Floating' early on that had a scene which was similar to a real-life situation I was in at the time. It involved me having a conversation with my father, who was dying. It was close to home and it made me realise acting wasn't just making faces for the cameras, it was a real art form.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

People say that they like the characters that they believe that I am. But, I don't as much. I like the characters that I believe that I am not. Like my role on 'Law and Order.' That character unnerved people. And I loved every second of it. I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

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.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.