Wladimir Klitschko Quotes

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I'd go into a shoot, there'd be all these dresses, and I'd say to myself, 'Okay, this isn't me. It's somebody else. So, who is this person?' Acting is the next level of that.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

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.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

You have to find out how to become the character.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

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

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.