Terrence Howard Quotes

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

Every character brings new light to a different part of myself, which is something I love about every role I get to play.

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

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

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.