Shemar Moore Quotes

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.

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 like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

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

With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

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

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.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

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

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

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.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

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.

More than the hair and the makeup, what is important is to feel the character.

I prefer to do roles that I can relate to.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.