Because Quote by Peter O'Toole

When I start thinking about a role, I read the script a few times and then let it sink in - and then take…

— Craig Robinson

I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of…

— Freddie Highmore

Sometimes I play, sometimes I don't, when I'm given the chance I try to be ready.

— Filippo Inzaghi

I like having the script before I start. With new plays, you're constantly developing as you're doing it. It's really frightening. You don't quite…

— Sophie Okonedo

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where…

— Jean Stapleton

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what…

— Constantin Stanislavski

A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic…

— Sally Hawkins

When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want…

— Max von Sydow

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's…

— Johnny Depp

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and…

— Frances Conroy

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

— Jon Bernthal

You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in New York…

— Melissa George