Richard Madden Quotes

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

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

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 acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are... I love it.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.