Melanie Scrofano Quotes

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.

I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

Sometimes in film and television, I don't have the opportunity to play roles that really stretch and challenge me.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.