Douglas Carter Beane Quotes

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

I think it's so important when you're playing a character that you can't judge the person you're playing at all. It's a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

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

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

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

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like 'People' and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.

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.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

I love acting because you don't have to do the same thing over and over again, every day, and that's what attracted me to wanting to do this for a living. So to be given an opportunity to create something completely different and live that out is the dream. It's incredibly rewarding.

I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier the history, the more romantic the couple must be.

You live vicariously through your characters.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!