Asa Butterfield Quotes

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

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.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

You can't identify 100% with your character.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.

I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.

My first experiences with fashion were dressing up. It was always about fantasy for me. Dressing up as characters . . . I always thought that's what clothes were - that they would make you into the person you wanted to be. I'm an actress, so I love to act, and I think that's one of the most important things - the thing that makes you feel like another person.

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

I think when you're playing a character in any film it's so crucial to have the costume that makes you feel like you're going to be that character.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.