Bill Skarsgard Quotes

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

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

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

I try and find a way to love every character I play.

When I write, I try to become different characters.