Arden Cho Quotes

I believe each character you do, you should add your touch and uniqueness to it.

The worst acting is about imitation.

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

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

I always try to make each character my own.

What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.