Carrie Preston Quotes

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

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

People say that they like the characters that they believe that I am. But, I don't as much. I like the characters that I believe that I am not. Like my role on 'Law and Order.' That character unnerved people. And I loved every second of it. I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

Sexa as a character was fun to play. My mother couldn't even recognise me in the get-up of an older guy. In fact, it surprised me also. It's easily one of the most special characters I have ever played.

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

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

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

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

You have to find out how to become the character.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.