Anne Parillaud Quotes

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

I consider myself a character actor.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

You try not to judge the characters you're playing.

The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

When you're in front of the camera, you have to try to create different emotions because even the person making pictures of you needs inspiration. To be 'you' means nothing - you can be so many yous.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.