Gale Harold Quotes

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

As an actor, I always feel that each and every character in my films has to be distinct. The character Thilak that I play in 'Kavan' will be one such unique role in my career.

I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.