Carrie Preston Quotes

I consider myself a character actor.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

I can be the girl next door, be the sexy girl, be an action girl. As an actor, this is something that people need to see.

I adore actors/actresses that have range: someone that can transform into a character that is far beyond who they truly are. Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp are amazing at this.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.

I'm a Jack of all trades character actor, really.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.

I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in 'The Fighter.' That is what is so impressive about really good actors, that they can be character actors and leading men at the same time.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities.

I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.

I love doing characters that surprise people and showing what I am, which is an actor, first and foremost.

With realistic and deglamourised roles and live sound, the charisma of a star is not enough. Can you be many different people?

There's this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that sounds.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.