Ulrich Thomsen Quotes

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

I like to have something to base a role on.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

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

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

During the inception of 'Zindagi Gulzar Hai,' we studied the characters and the script in depth so that we could imbibe the essence of it in our performance.

Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You have to feel like it came from somewhere.

Every time I get a role, or the opportunity to explore a role, I look at it, and I think, 'What is the story we're trying to tell here?'

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!