Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes

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

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

Any opportunity I can get to showcase different characters, I absolutely love.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

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

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

There's a little bit of me in everybody that I play.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

I try and find a way to love every character I play.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

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.

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

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

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

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.