Scarlett Johansson Quotes

It's nice to play someone who functions in a very different way than I do.

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.

Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other. That's kind of why I like to be an actor because I get to play different characters and pretend I'm different people going through different situations.

I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see what everything is like. For me, it's very much about the character and how different it is from something I've done earlier.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in other ways, we're completely different. It's hard to say because I'm an actor living in a world where we're all pretty privileged, and this guy is fighting for his life. They're very different circumstances. Within those circumstances, there are probably ways that we react to certain situations that are similar.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.

Every character I play is me, always has been.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.

I have always been more interested in persons than in people.

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.

I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

I love the process of auditioning and having the chance to play a million different characters in one week - it's great.