Theo Rossi Quotes

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

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

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

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.

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

Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

I like to have something to base a role on.

If you're playing a real person, then you want to do a certain amount of research, but that's only going to be so useful to you. Each role requires a different kind of approach to get ready.

As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.

I generally don't feel the need to do more research than is necessary to play the part for me, to inform me.

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

In acting, one should look at the film in totality. Improvisations should only be made keeping in mind the limits of a character. Always believe in team work.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

I never do any research for my roles.

It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

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.