Saoirse Ronan Quotes

The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have.

When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

Acting is a way to escape who you are for a short period of time. It doesn't happen all the time, but every now and then, the sensation of being 'other' is very profound. You get this moment where you are no longer yourself. You lose consciousness of the crew or the audience... it's a thrilling moment. And even quite spiritual.

Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.

As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

I lived my 'Mom' character. I became Devaki.

You can't identify 100% with your character.

The more I can be the character, the further I can get away from myself, the better.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

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

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

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

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.

Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.