Olga Kurylenko Quotes

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

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.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

Acting is acting.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

For me, acting is doing.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

Acting to me is always reacting.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

You don't become the character.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.