Melissa Joan Hart Quotes

I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

I love doing scenes with two actors in an elevator, but sometimes I'm a little boy, and I like swinging a sword with 800 soldiers around.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

It's been great for me to play a real baddie.

I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.

I'm a policeman on television but an absolute wuss in real life.

You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like, 'OK I'm going to shock.' I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don't understand.

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

I love playing intense characters.

Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

No, I gained weight while playing the role of Rodney Mckay on Stargate Atlantis... breakfast burritos and a near endless supply of donuts.

I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.

I want to play characters that are real, that have depth in them.

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

You need someone who has a really good way of enabling trust in the cast and crew, or the cast particularly, to allow them the confidence to stretch themselves to get the performance that you're going to need to provide all of the emotional up and downs in the film.

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!

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.