Luke Evans Quotes

You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

Now I like to think that I'm in my character's head so much that I don't have to substitute. I'm in the moment; I'm living in the moment. And if it's genuine, it's real, and if it comes out it comes out.

When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

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.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

I am not much of a trained actor. I have to get my brain and heart to go deep inside the situation, and then, probably, I can start acting. It takes me a little while to get out of it.

To give a successful character portrayal on stage or on film, the part has to be played inside of you.

I sort of thought acting was just about arranging your face into emotions. I didn't realise it was about actually allowing yourself to feel the feelings, then letting your face follow. That was a big learning curve.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.