Nicholas D'Agosto Quotes

I love playing complex characters.

As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

I want to play many different characters.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

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'm an actor. I love to create.

I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.

It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I play characters that allow me to do lot more than just be a glamorous heroine.

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.