Jessica Barden Quotes

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

When you're playing someone who is angry and sad all the time, you get a little down.

I can usually play polarizing characters.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

In 'Raabta' I've two personalities to project, and yes, there are distinct shades of grey.

An actor's job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or joy, it doesn't look the same.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.

I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.