Carice van Houten Quotes

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.

You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.

Every character I play is me.

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

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

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

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

I think it's so important when you're playing a character that you can't judge the person you're playing at all. It's a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

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

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

In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.