Bill Skarsgard Quotes

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Any good actor is a character actor.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

As an actor, I don't want an image. I want people to see the character, not me.

For me, the character I play is most important.

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

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.

I really love being a character actor.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

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.