Joseph Fiennes Quotes

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.

I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I think every actor injects some of his own personality into his parts. There's a great deal of myself in McCoy, a great deal of Bill in Kirk, and a great deal of Leonard in Spock!

I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.

I think, as an actor, you create things for your character that you think will make it more personal to you, because on the day, you want to make sure that you're truly there in the moment.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

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 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.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.

I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.