Angelina Jolie Quotes

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

I'm living a fairy tale.

You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.

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.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official 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.

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

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White.

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.

You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.

Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it.

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.

Playing someone supernatural is more realistic than I thought it would be.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

I thought about how I'd play a vampire for awhile because I grew up watching vampire films and reading books.

Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'

I always fall in love with every character I play.

I guess my favourite Disney film was 'Snow White,' which has a really dark moment when the evil queen turns into a witch and makes the poison apple. It was terrifying in the same way 'Maleficent' is.