Sophie Turner Quotes

Any good actor is a character actor.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

I adore actors/actresses that have range: someone that can transform into a character that is far beyond who they truly are. Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp are amazing at this.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I think good acting is always character acting.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.