Rachele Brooke Smith Quotes

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.

I never played an ingenue.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

I do play villains.

I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress.

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

You just have to play the character.

As an actor, I'd rather turn into Joffrey.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

It's fun to play the female lead of anything.

For years there, I sort of lived the character.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.