Tiffany Haddish Quotes

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

I think it is very important to be a method actor.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.