James Norton Quotes

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.

For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.

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

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.