Rupert Friend Quotes

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

Acting, for me, is a process of metamorphosis. It's about forgetting who I am and becoming someone entirely new.

I always do what the character demands, and I love to experiment with my looks.

For me, acting is sacred.

I would love nothing more to participate in a real struggle to find a character, and really delve into and develop a character. That's why I'm an actor.

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.