Randy Orton Quotes

I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.

When I do a film, it is about how I become a character.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

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

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a lot of it yourself.

My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being who turns up in a piece of film or entertainment that's going, you know, exist as if it might exist after the film is finished and it existed before the film has started.

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.'

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.