Berenice Bejo Quotes

For me, changing my physical appearance for a character is never a problem. If I have to look a certain way for a role, I just do it.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

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

For me to take a role, I read a script, and I think, 'Wow, I don't know how I'm going to do this, but I want to try.'

I don't prepare myself for any character unless it is really different.

I take my time to understand the nuances of a character and prepare for a role, which is why I take time to do films. I work hard on myself to fit the character.

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.

When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and leave behind - anything that's going on in your personal life.

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.

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

I'm not one of these Disney haters. I'm really appreciative of the foundation it laid for me.

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

When you're an actor, you get your ideas from everywhere - even from someone on the street. We're total thieves!

As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.

For me, the first thing that I respond to - whether it's doing a play or movie or television or anything - is just the character. Is this a guy whose shoes I want to walk in for the next 12 days or six months?

Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play.

As an actor, if you want to explore something new inside you, you need to do something different that you don't do in your regular life. You need to think in a different way. It is my duty to think like the character that I am given and believe in his mindset; only then I will be able to portray it.

My brother Ryan was on the Disney XD show 'Pair of Kings' where he played Lanny, the evil cousin to twin kings, for three seasons. His motivation to be a better actor always pushes me to work harder and try to be more like him. When he gets a role, he will study that character until he becomes that person.

When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.

Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

I don't do many films at the same time, as I don't like to switch between characters. At a given point, I would like to get into the skin of whatever character I am playing.

I am not that big a method actor.

Preparing for roles sounds so academic, doesn't it? It feels as if you are preparing for an examination! In a creative medium, the preparation is of an entirely different kind, and for me, the ideas flow from the script itself.

I think some actors are very smart and have the tools. They know how to disconnect themselves from the characters, but I think for a lot of them, it's very difficult.