Hugh Jackman Quotes

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.

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

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.

There's always that key to every character that lets you go to those places you need to go to. No matter how much you might hate the character, it makes you understand it.

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.

Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of view, why they say what they do. And not, 'Oh, but I would never say that. Why does the character say that?' But then making it as personal as possible.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.