Elle Fanning Quotes

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

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

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor's dream.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.

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

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

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

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 love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred.

I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.

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

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

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

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

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

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