Jordan Gavaris Quotes

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

I think every character I play definitely has parts of me. I can't ever play someone that's completely different to me.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I always start from myself, because you have to know yourself first.

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

You have to bring yourself to a character.

I can say that I put a lot of personal feelings into 'Hereditary', though I can also say that none of the characters in the film are surrogates for anybody in my family or for myself.

I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn't mean that you have to cut off your true self.

I generally make a point to finish my shot in the initial couple of takes with the goal that the execution would be genuine, and it naturally makes a great deal of strain.

For me, it is important to pick up characters which I can relate to. Or I recall an incident in my life or tap into my innermost emotions and try to bring that reality on to the screen.

I always try to bring a little bit of my own personality to the character, or some sort of personal connection makes it a little bit more of an organic portrayal and the audience can kind of maybe believe it a little bit more. But I always look for something to kind of connect with and identify with, or bring something of myself to the table.

I think every actor injects some of his own personality into his parts. There's a great deal of myself in McCoy, a great deal of Bill in Kirk, and a great deal of Leonard in Spock!

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.