Aaron Lazar Quotes

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

I try and find a way to love every character I play.

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.