“I tried to infect myself with him. Get him into my system. It was important to get his gait, his riding style.” – Ben Foster on Playing Lance Armstrong
“I read scripts. I hire people for their opinions, and I listen. But ultimately the gamble is a part of your art. I do things that I respond to, and try not to overthink it.” – Jennifer Lawrence
“Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it’s still instinctive.” – Rebecca Hall on Creating a Character
“It would almost take me out of it at times because of how good it was. Like something in my brain would go, ‘Whoa, he’s really going for it.'” – Seth Rogen on Working with Michael Fassbender
“I think that an actor has some degree of responsibility with regard to their audience to change—to give them something different, to give them something new” – Johnny Depp
“You can’t really plan that stuff out. I don’t know how you could, especially not me” – Oscar Isaac on his career
“Being [famous] is almost like being a pregnant woman” – Bryan Cranston
“It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character” – Daniel Craig
“I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I’m pretty happy doing it as an actor.” – Jake Johnson
“The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.” – Jesse Eisenberg
“Each part will have its challenges and I like that because if you’re trying to solve a problem you’re fully engaged” – Ian McKellen
“I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero…I have no f— idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around” – Kit Harington
“My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.” – Ian McKellen
“My work expresses best what I’m trying to explore, and you can see from the work I’ve done lately the areas where I’m searching.” – Jake Gyllenhaal
“I don’t have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, ‘I have to do a drama next,’ or ‘I am looking for an action movie now.” – Paul Rudd
“Whenever I get an opportunity to go in another direction, I do” – Angela Bassett
“Don’t send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend. I just won’t do that.” – David Oyelowo
“I do get nervous to act, it kind of depends on what it is really.” – Channing Tatum
“I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I’ll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don’t have that, you’re not taking enough risks.” – Taylor Kitsch
“Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.” – Sutton Foster
