Eric McCormack Quotes

The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

'Luther' is raw and brutal like 'Game Of Thrones,' but it's coincidence. If I'm drawn to anything, it would be the writing. Choosing a project is an organic process where I'm taken in by the character and storyline, not the genre, whether fantasy or gritty and raw.

I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

I think what I look for in a script, it's the relatability quotient that matters the most.

I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.

For me, a story has to have characters, and my role should be meaningful. At the end of the day, people should say that they like my performance.

I look at the story and see what I have got to do in the film. Sometimes the story is great, set-up is good but there isn't much for you to do. I don't want to do that.

I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.