Jane Levy Quotes

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

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

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

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

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination - a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

I think finding a way to relate material to yourself can be useful to some people but acting for me is just being really good at make-pretend and lying. I've always been a great liar.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

The worst acting is about imitation.

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.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

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.

I think people who are regarded as better actors must have better instincts because, at the end of the day, once they say 'action,' it's you who has to do it right. You can do all the research and preparation or none at all, but it's your instincts that tell you, 'No, I'll do it like this.'

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.