Dorothy Atkinson Quotes

I love to play any character that isn't close to my personality.

I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

Any opportunity I can get to showcase different characters, I absolutely love.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.

I love portraying different characters.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

I love everything. I love being the empathetic characters. I love being the villains. I think it's like when we're kids, we like to play all kinds of crazy characters and dress up.

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.