Greta Gerwig Quotes

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

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 think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

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.

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

Any opportunity I can get to showcase different characters, I absolutely love.

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

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

When I write, I try to become different characters.

We are not brain surgeons. We are not curing cancer. We are not finding the next cure for Alzheimer's. We are simply and merely entertainment. We take on and wear the masks of characters. That's what we're paid to do.