Cody Fern Quotes

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

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.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

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

You have to play your characters, not like them.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.