Rachael Stirling Quotes

I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

I consider myself a character actor.

I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

I'm fortunate enough to pull off glamorous as well as strong, character-driven roles.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

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?

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.

In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

When I saw John Turturro in 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' I realized that was the kind of actor I wanted to be.

I have played both serious as well as lighter characters, also, and have been satisfied with both types.

I would loved to be called a character actor.

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.