Katherine Waterston Quotes

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

When you're playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don't when you're playing people who weren't ever in the public eye.

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.

There is a sense of responsibility when you play a real-life character because there are people who will see your work, make comparisons, and judge you. They have all the rights to do that because they know the real person. They might have seen that person also.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

I think that always, as an actor, I don't want to overstep or pretend that I'm doing anything more than I'm doing.

You have to do a version of somebody that's the essence of Paterno. I think that's what Al is so great at. You have to create a man, a life, and the emotions that go with it. He's truly brilliant.

Anything in which you're playing someone real does make you feel responsible for making the story as true as it can be.

There's always mixed feelings about the work that I do. When you're playing a real person, that's another kind of responsibility. I have to say that every time that I have played a real person, even though I gave it everything I could, I feel like I misinterpreted trying to represent them. All the time I feel like I screwed it up! But I don't know if that's because I can't separate myself from it enough.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.