William Mapother Quotes

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

You have to like the characters you play.

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

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

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.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

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 think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.

I love playing complex characters.

I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.