Donald Sinden Quotes

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.

I'd love to be one of those guys who could be like, 'Yeah, it's really exhausting,' but the truth is I'm not method. I don't take roles home.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.

Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.