Tom Bateman Quotes

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

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.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on, let's really connect here.' I don't think a lot of people understand it's a two-way exchange. Some people go to a show and are like, 'Yeah, you make me feel.' That's not how it works.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

You have to like the characters you play.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

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.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.