Ashley Rickards Quotes

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.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which the character would normally do. Maybe that's the way I function as an actor, and I believe in it. And that's how I try and portray a character.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

It's more difficult for me to get into a character in the lead-up as opposed to leaving it.

There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them, and at the same time, blur the dissimilarities. Since you do it day in and day out, it becomes a process and a part of you.

I never do roles, I play people.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

I never act my characters - I am them.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

I think it is very important to be a method actor.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.