Daniela Ruah Quotes

I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. So it never surprises me. And if it's good writing, you can find your way into the part well enough.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.

It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.

If you're good enough to play a role with emotion and universal human elements, then you'll get others coming to you.

I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.