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You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.


Chris Penn
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The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.
Johnny Depp
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It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing.
Jenna Elfman
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When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.
Alyssa Sutherland
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I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.
Peter Mullan
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A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.
Norman Jewison
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I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.
Jonah Hill
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Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.


Lindsey Shaw
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Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'


Matt Bomer
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.


Taryn Manning
Tags: You Just Because
We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.
Simon Pegg
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
A. A. Milne
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I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!
Richard Briers
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You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.


Paul Coffey
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Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.
Theo Rossi
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I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.


Robert Iler
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Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side.
Randeep Hooda
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There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
Kenneth Branagh
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.


Zoe Saldana
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It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
Ellen Burstyn