Vincent Piazza Quotes

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

I don't prepare myself for any character unless it is really different.

It is important for an actor to play different roles.

I played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running for president but I could play a candidate. Most of the time, you don't really have to have those things in your life to understand what they're like.

I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.

Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

Once I decide to take on a role it's because I find that guy to be really interesting to watch and very compelling to play. And from that point on I can no longer judge him. I can only take on his point of view in order to play him effectively. And his point of view is often not mine.

I am definitely a lot more girly that the characters that I play.

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

Zachary Roerig who plays Matt, he's just a character.

There's a little bit of me in all of the characters I've played. I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me.

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

When you play a serious role, as far as I'm concerned, I feel I'm using exactly the same skills, whatever they are, to play the role as you do with something more obviously comic. It's slightly different muscles, but the same skill set.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.