Elle Fanning Quotes

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.

I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.

As an actor you bring some of your own experiences which can make things easier. You build off of it, but your imagination is always the best thing you have as far as creating things I think specifically for what that character is going through. But you're definitely drawing obviously upon things that you can connect to, and then you kind of mold the change that you're making into something that's right for the character.

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.