Crystal Reed Quotes

I don't prepare for my characters.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

I'm analytical as an actor, and one of the things Quentin did was free me from that.

One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.'

One thing I tend to do is ask actors tons and tons of questions to try to get at what they're thinking but also to expose to them whatever box they've placed their characters in - to blow up that box so the journey can begin.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath.

As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.

I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.