Keira Knightley Quotes

Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

Having worked with Sarah Paulson on 'American Horror Story: Hotel' and seeing the lengths she goes to when shooting a scene, you go, 'Oh, so that's what this is going to be like.'

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

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

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

Every actor believes in his way of performing.

I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they're playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.

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.

My job, and what I've taken such joy in, is the craft of acting and of creating dynamic and authentic characters, and then finding a way to build them within the confines and with the support of the worlds that I've found myself.

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

While playing complex characters you're staying in the same place but you're departing with your mind and soul and educating yourself until you can really understand such huge worlds. Those are the roles that keep loyal to the authenticity of what people are, and not caricatures. It's something that requires me to prepare for three, four months. I love the process of it, rather than, "Okay, I'm ready, I'm set with the wardrobe that somebody else chose for me."

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

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