Paul Rudd Quotes

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

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. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.