J. August Richards Quotes

For me, it's always the script. The script which gives me the chance to do something new; that has been my prime objective ever since I started acting. There's nothing else that excites me more than that.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.

I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.