Andrew J. West Quotes

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

- Andrew J. West

You want to go into scenes thinking not that you're the good guy or the bad guy, but that you've got a job to do. And I'm not talking about as an actor; I'm talking about as the character.

- Andrew J. West

I have had the opportunity to work with Andy Lincoln a lot. He's got a remarkable process. He just has these ways of sinking into the scene and into character that are very physical. He'll make these sounds and these grunts and these moans... I don't know what it is that he's channeling! It lets you know it's okay for you to do that, too.

- Andrew J. West

You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.

- Andrew J. West