Emily Atack Quotes

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

My dream is to play ordinary characters. I have no interest in playing a pretty girl or an NRI girl.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

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.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

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

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

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

You have to find out how to become the character.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.

It's a treat to portray a complex character. Besides... where else could I find a job where emotional outbursts and odd exclamations like 'Egad!', 'Narf!', 'Poit!', 'Splonk!' and 'Zort!' are allowed?

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'