Suzanne Somers Quotes

Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy.

If you're on a TV show, you never know what's going to happen week to week with your character.

Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.

For me personally, it doesn't matter if I'm in a short film, a commercial, a digital series, a TV show, or a movie. Acting is acting. You have to embrace whatever medium you happen to be in and not worry about everything else around it.

I think being in touch with your emotions is very key as an actor, and I think experiencing life is the only way to be in touch with your emotions.

A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.

I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

Luckily, on 'Kyle XY,' I had great training in being tough and vulnerable at the same time.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school.

I like pushing myself as an actor.

One of the things an actor tries to access is immediacy, so that you feel like you're experiencing it for the first time. But when you're playing a character who knows what's going to happen and can't stop himself to reacting although he knows he can't stop himself from reacting, there's a whole separate set of things to consider.

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.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

Sometimes when you're doing fantasy, that's the most important thing, is to be a blank space, because the last thing you want to do ever as an actor is judge yourself or the character or the movie that you're in. You want to just play the moment as best you can. Juilliard helped me do that.

In 'The Sound of Music,' I was a von Trapp daughter in a white dress with a blue satin sash, and my line was, 'I'm Brigitta. I'm 12, and all I want is a good time.' I got a laugh. And I was so delighted, I laughed, too. Sadly, that's a problem I still have - onstage, I laugh hysterically at how funny I am.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

When I got the audition for 'Big Little Lies,' I knew this project was going to be different than anything I'd ever done. That didn't change the way I approached the role.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.

When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

I initially was very drawn to playing a split personality. I've always wanted to do that kind of role.

I'll say that, Bill Camp, from 'The Night Of,' is one of our great actors.

When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.