Tatiana Maslany Quotes

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

Be it TV, films, or stage, I love substantial roles. The length of the character doesn't matter, but if the character is well thought, then I have to grab it.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.

The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.