Kelly Marie Tran Quotes

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

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

Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

I never act my characters - I am them.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.

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

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.

As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.

I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

I am not much of a trained actor. I have to get my brain and heart to go deep inside the situation, and then, probably, I can start acting. It takes me a little while to get out of it.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.