Character Quote by Mark Rylance

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

— Eddie Marsan

It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as…

— Gary Cole

Acting is a very strange thing. It isn't about trying to feel, for me, it is about thinking.

— June Brown

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

— Luke Mably

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into…

— James Frain

Acting is kind of an escape. You get to live life as someone else, and when you're living this life as someone else, you…

— Diana Silvers

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

— David Duchovny

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with…

— Ginger Rogers

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except…

— Meryl Streep

That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.

— Becky G

When you live with a character in your mind, after a while you start to behave like them, act like them and connect with…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But…

— Kristen Stewart