Neve Campbell Quotes

When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

I've worked with some actors who can't act.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

I feel that I am a good actor.

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.