Morgan Fairchild Quotes

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

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

I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

My family was always wondering why I ended up playing people who were mentally ill, insane, downtrodden, and a little crazy. I think what they don't understand is that most female parts are written basically as hysterical women.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

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

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.

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

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles I've done, that have been so close to my heart.

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.

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.