Daniel Sharman Quotes

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

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

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.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.

I play characters that allow me to do lot more than just be a glamorous heroine.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

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

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

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

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.