Finn Jones Quotes

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

The real road, to me, was within the actor, within myself, within my own personality. How much Jeffrey can I find, and how much of Jeffrey could I access? What parts of Jeffrey have I never used for Hank or for George or Oscar? - and that was a delight.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

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

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

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

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

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

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 there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

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

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

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

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.