Vanessa Lengies Quotes

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.

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

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

Sometimes it's hard to play someone so similar to you, because you can muddy the character. Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you, because it's clearer who they are.

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

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

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.

In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting.

I'm game for any kind of roles as long as I find it interesting.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

I like playing a variety of roles and characters, as it forces you to keep challenging yourself.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!

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

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have a fantasy that you could be somebody else. Which is absurd. That's part of being an actor. It's your voice, it's the way you move, it's your body, even if you transform it, you play with it.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.