Tammy Blanchard Quotes

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

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.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

I think good acting is always character acting.

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I play.

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

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

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.

I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.

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

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

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

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre.

I always approach any character I do as being right.

I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.

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.