Kiersey Clemons Quotes

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

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

I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.

I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.

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.

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

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

Every role I have played has had a bit of me in them.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

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.

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.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

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

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

You bring a little bit of yourself into every character you play. We're multifaceted creatures.

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 put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

There's a little bit of me in everybody that I play.

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.

I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

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.