Chin Han Quotes

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

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.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.