Cory Michael Smith Quotes

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

I always ask the actors, 'What have you never done before?'

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there.

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

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.

When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.