Vittorio Grigolo Quotes

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

I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

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

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

The characters I play always seem eerily appropriate to where I am in my personal life at the time, and if they're not, there always tends to be this notion that I should be learning something to apply to my own life from these people.

As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn't lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

I honestly do think that every character - you pick up the things, little things that you like about them in your life. Especially if you play a character for a long time.

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 prefer to do roles that I can relate to.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'