Ruth Rendell Quotes

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

Sometimes I get into the movies and into the roles; it's hard for me to move on.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

A part of my job, when I'm playing a character and approaching a role, is to rationalize and to not judge whatsoever.

As far as 'Jane Pittman,' I don't know that I could verbalize, to this day, what I felt once I got into that role. I did a tremendous amount of research. I need to feel as though I am in the person's skin.

It's fun to play a character that you can identify with.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.