Rachel Miner Quotes

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

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

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.

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

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

You have to like the characters you play.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.