Darby Stanchfield Quotes

I find doing emotional scenes very tough, it is very challenging for me.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.

It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.

Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo, and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I always felt intimidated in pilot season trying to audition for 'the girlfriend.' Whereas when it's like, 'you're auditioning for the part of this meth addict, trailer park whatever,' it's like, 'Great!'

The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

They can say that you are a liar, a cheat, a crackpot, and a licentious old man, and most politicians don't care. But if they say you can't win, you're through.

It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.

It's interesting to me because theater is, on any given day, 10,000 times harder than film and television. And that's not to say film or television can't be hard or challenging; it's emotional to do the same thing over and over and over. But in terms of stamina, there is nothing like an eight-show week to separate the men from the boys.

The women here in Monaco don't like me, and so I have to watch everything I say and everything I do because they're so critical.

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.

Well, it definitely comes as a challenge to act as enemies onscreen when you bond with the opposite person very well off-screen.

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

I just did what the script demanded from me in 'Uyir.' I felt it was indeed a challenging role for me.

Honestly speaking, it's not easy to reprise someone else's role.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

I think sometimes people say a comment and don't realise they're body shaming. I don't think people are body-shamers, maybe just body-judgers. People will say throw-away comments.