Troy Donahue Quotes

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

Fortunately, the films I do not require too much of glamour. Those are the kinds of roles I'm looking for.

I want filmmakers to notice me, not just as a glam doll but as a human being with all facets of emotions.

Al Pacino, De Niro, Daniel Day Lewis - they're the best out there because everything they do comes from a very honest place.

I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings.

I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you're like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.