Sylvia Hoeks Quotes

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

A part of my job, when I'm playing a character and approaching a role, is to rationalize and to not judge whatsoever.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

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.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

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

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

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

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'

Yes, of course it's fun to play evil, but it's simply fun to play any different characters.

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

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.