James Ransone Quotes

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.

I adore actors/actresses that have range: someone that can transform into a character that is far beyond who they truly are. Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp are amazing at this.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

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.

The skill of a gifted actor, their ability to interpret and develop a character and truly bring her or him to life, is one that I admire enormously.

I can be the girl next door, be the sexy girl, be an action girl. As an actor, this is something that people need to see.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

I continue to be known as a guy that plays really complex, three-dimensional characters.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.

Any good actor is a character actor.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.