Anna Gunn Quotes

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

I want to play good characters, not glamorous ones.

I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

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

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

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

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

I don't like to objectify the people I play. I always try to go for the truth in any part.

I try to have a true line in every character I play.

I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.

I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I play.

I want to play characters that are real, that have depth in them.

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

You always draw from yourselves even if you're playing the most crazy type of person. What you really want is to be three-dimensional.

Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.