Percelle Ascott Quotes

When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.

In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

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

After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.

When I read a script I either immediately identify with the character or I don't. If I find myself reading the part in my own voice I think 'This is a bit of a drag, isn't it?' and it's no good.

I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.