Esme Creed-Miles Quotes

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

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

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

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. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

I'm an actor. The fact that I'm involved in Jigsaw, I don't approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in 'The Firm' or FBI Agent Stokes in 'Mississippi Burning.' It's the same deal. It's just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, 'How does it feel to be a horror icon?' I'm thrilled. It's great.

I think every character I play definitely has parts of me. I can't ever play someone that's completely different to me.

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

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.