Miranda Otto Quotes

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

As an actor, you strive to show versatility.

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

I only want to be a versatile actor.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

The only thing I have tried to do is be a part of different films and bring out a different side of me as an actor every time I play a character. I would like to be known as a versatile actor.

The whole process of acting is transformation. What is your power, quality and level of transformation, define you as an actor.

I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.