Robert Pattinson Quotes

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

Character is plot, and casting is character.

That's what acting is, it's exploring conflict.

I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.

Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

When I was playing a psychopath in 'Happy Valley,' it was really weird.

I like a drama.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting people who are part of great stories. So, as an actor, there's really nothing better.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

The intimate conversations have its moments, because you have to sell the characters, because there is so much going on. It's so easy to get lost in the special effects and forget about the performances. The dialogue scenes have been great. It's been great working with Bryan and the writers to find where we're going and what's the story. Yeah, it's been really, really interesting.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.