Juno Temple Quotes

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

You have to like the characters you play.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

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.

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.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

I try and find a way to love every character I play.

I don't know how to play a character unless I love him.

With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.