Richard Harmon Quotes

I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

When I prepare for a role, I try to get inside the character's head and understand him.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

Music actually inspires me a lot. I listen to a lot of music, and often I find that if I can associate mentally a song or a piece of music with a particular character or scene, it helps me get back into the head of that character.

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

I tend to - every time I step onto the set until the time I go back to the hotel, I just try to be in character all the time.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I'm playing, and everything else goes out the window. I forget about everything. I try to get everything else out of my head.

If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

Usually, one of the first things I think about when I'm developing a character is what they're wearing. I mean, it sounds very cheesy and very actor-y, but it really does help me figure it out.

There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them, and at the same time, blur the dissimilarities. Since you do it day in and day out, it becomes a process and a part of you.

I listen to music because that's such a huge part of my process; not to sound super pretentious, but that's a big part of what helps me get in character.

How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.

I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.