Angelina Jolie Quotes

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

One of the things an actor tries to access is immediacy, so that you feel like you're experiencing it for the first time. But when you're playing a character who knows what's going to happen and can't stop himself to reacting although he knows he can't stop himself from reacting, there's a whole separate set of things to consider.

The challenge is to stay true to the characters while also having them be entertaining every day, because it turns out that just watching someone be true to themselves isn't that rad to watch.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

I wish to continue to essay roles that will help me find my place in the audience's hearts.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones.

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.

And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that that's Chris and he's having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that.