Janet Montgomery Quotes

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

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

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.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

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

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.