Estelle Parsons Quotes

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

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

Sometimes I get into the movies and into the roles; it's hard for me to move on.

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

So the mask was just really easy, I've got to be honest. And it was great actually because it really allowed you to get into the character a little bit more maybe than without it, if that makes sense.

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.