Kim Hawthorne Quotes

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

In terms of pure acting, my role model has always been Philip Seymour Hoffman; I really always loved what he did. I love what Mark Ruffalo does. When I was younger, I liked Cate Blanchett a lot. These are all actors who are given stories and allowed to carry the whole story.

My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being who turns up in a piece of film or entertainment that's going, you know, exist as if it might exist after the film is finished and it existed before the film has started.

Even though 'Kroll' was a crazy sketch show with big characters, one of the things I'm proud of about the show is that the characters were always kind of coming from an emotionally honest place for whoever I thought that character was.

I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.

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 actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They don't want a different you; they want a different story.

To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

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