Peter Sellers Quotes

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

I consider myself a character actor.

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

I never do roles, I play people.

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!

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

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.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

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

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Any good actor is a character actor.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

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