Will Arnett Quotes

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.

My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.

I love playing odd roles.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.

I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred.

It is important for an actor to play different roles.

When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.

As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them.

The process of playing a character as dark as Omar Saeed Sheikh is disturbing. So you have to mentally also be in that psyche, that state of mind. So, it was not easy. I was trying to cultivate a lot of anger and hatred in me while portraying him, because that's what I read and heard about him.

In my screen test for 'Hanna,' I sort of pretended I was this sporty person when I really wasn't.

It's always a pleasant experience while acting because I like to surprise myself and the audience with what I do.

Even though the 'Shooter' character on TV is so close to the real-life me, I'm still playing with ways to creatively portray that character.

I'm not a trained actor. I have neither read acting books nor gone to acting school. But I have certain fundamentals on how I approach a character; the basic skeleton of my preparation is based on observations from real life.

I had quite a bit of experience doing things that had been adapted from a book and playing real-life characters and playing the younger version of actors. That's kind of my thing.

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.