Sebastian Koch Quotes

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

I was really impressed with and excited about being immersed in this world and this time period with 'Fences,' being able to walk the neighborhood, and it looks exactly like the 1950s.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.

You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.

Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

Acting in an epic and a non-fictional film is a big challenge for actors, as they need to research extensively about the characters they are playing before stepping into their shoes.

What's always intriguing to me is transforming my subjects into a character from another era.

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

I'd always wanted to do costume drama, but period dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all of a sudden people start losing their sense of humour or their personalities.

It's always a treat to have something that lets me explore a different period. I do try to be a stickler, as much as I can, but luckily the writers are, as well.

Well, it definitely comes as a challenge to act as enemies onscreen when you bond with the opposite person very well off-screen.

Humpty' was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.

I feel like when you perform in a period drama, it's so easy to transform yourself into someone else because the costumes are so different.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're playing.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

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.

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.

As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

I've played horrible people and done horrible things, and there were moments on 'The Knick' where it was super uncomfortable - some of the things I had to do and say.