Kim Bodnia Quotes

I always approach any character I do as being right.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

When I play a part, I never think about likability.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

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.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.