Brett Gelman Quotes

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.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

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

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

More than the hair and the makeup, what is important is to feel the character.

I like to bring a level of vulnerability and real humanity to the characters I play when appropriate, and I feel like Dr. Culber lives pretty comfortably in that vulnerable world, but he's a professional first.

I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.

I try to find something in everyone that I play - even the most heinous ones. You have to find something that is real and vulnerable about everything that you play.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.