Serinda Swan Quotes

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Really, for an actor, it's all about remembering a lot of stuff - and keeping the moustache on.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

When I'm doing a play like 'Betrayal,' I have to be careful not to get stimulation overload.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

This acting was very hard work.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.