Kirsten Dunst Quotes

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

Of course, I love chats with various actors about the process and how they do it. To me, if it's not on the camera, if it's not there, it's not worth it. It really just isn't worth it.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

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

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

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 approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

My acting has got to be natural. I didn't go to any drama schools. It's a gift from God.