Ryan Hurst Quotes

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.

You can't understand a character intellectually, you have to become one with its emotional core.

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

I identify in some measure with each of my characters.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

I love playing confused, broken characters.

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

Playing a drunk doesn't mean being a drunk, only bad actors try to be drunk. A real drunk tries to be sober, he wants another drink. How a character hides their feelings tells us who they are, no one shows their feelings except bad actors.

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone's got a reason for what they do, even if it's a reason that they're not proud of.

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.

In fact, my favorite Beatles song is "In My Life." And from that, you can gauge that my friends mean so much to me. I love John Lennon, so it's kind of like moody... There's a lot you can gauge from that. As insignificant as it seems, as an actor, it's an interesting way to approach a character.

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

I always feel a bit vulnerable when I begin a new project, especially when I am playing a character with either a troubled past or unique personality.

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.