Doug Jones Quotes

I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.

My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.

With every character that I've ever played, I felt like I just understood the way that she thought and how she was.

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.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'

When I read a script, the important thing is that I can connect in some way with that character and have some idea from what his story is that I can tell that story too, because that's all acting is, is storytelling.

If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone's got a reason for what they do, even if it's a reason that they're not proud of.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

I never act my characters - I am them.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.