Andrea Anders Quotes

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.

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

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

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.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and obnoxious. My issue was when it was like a ghetto girl; I didn't think I was good at it; I didn't feel authentic. And so I had insecurities about going in on it.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!