O. T. Fagbenle Quotes

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.

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

When I'm given a role, I'm consumed by a passion to bring to life a character that exists only on paper. I mull over the character for days and internalise his feelings.

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

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

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.

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

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

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.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

I studied method acting for four years and I'm a big believer in the idea that it's not about the actual experience itself. You don't have to go through exactly what this character has gone through.

A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not something that really works that way for me. I tend to look at these things as an imaginative process and a challenge of imagination and empathy, to some degree. I get much more out of meeting people who have lived these lives than I do digging around in my own limited experiences.

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.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

You have to like the characters you play.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.