Colman Domingo Quotes

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

I'm a method actor.

When I start thinking about a role, I read the script a few times and then let it sink in - and then take some time to develop how that character is going to play out and what he's going to do.

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

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 have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

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.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

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.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

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.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?