Emily Osment Quotes

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

I never act my characters - I am them.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

I don't approach my character in a set pattern. I want to get into the skin of the character. I don't love Manoj Bajpayee; I love all my characters. And that is why people today remember all my roles.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm the type of actor who goes to work, transforms into a character, takes you on a journey, and then comes back home to be Billy. When I'm in it, I'm in it, but I know how to get out of it. When you can't shut it off, you're a crazy person. I'm not crazy.

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.