Gwendoline Christie Quotes

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

It's interesting, the acting thing. I think it must be a deep sense of insecurity that made me want to explore other characters.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

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

You have to bring yourself to a character.

People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

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

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

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

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.