Judy Greer Quotes

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

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

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

I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

I am not taking home any of the characters I play on screen.

I am not that cute. However, because I had played so many cute characters, I am starting to be influenced by them.

I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.

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.

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I love playing confused, broken characters.

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

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

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

You got to constantly be in character.

I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an actor, not many people get to see him turn that character on, they don't understand that he's playing a role.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

I'll be able to pull off playing an unlikable character because inherently, I think I'm likable.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.