Elodie Yung Quotes

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

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

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

I think every character I play definitely has parts of me. I can't ever play someone that's completely different to me.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

There's a reason why I do anxious characters - it comes from a lot of personal anxiety. The great thing is, having that history, it's really fun to bring that into the characters... and play with it.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

For me, it is important to pick up characters which I can relate to. Or I recall an incident in my life or tap into my innermost emotions and try to bring that reality on to the screen.

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind.

The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed.

I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker character, I have to tap into something that isn't my natural way, and what I found was that I think human beings have the potential for all of these emotions.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.