Anne Enright Quotes

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You have to feel like it came from somewhere.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I love playing complex characters.

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.

I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I play.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

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.

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

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.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.