Kelvin Fletcher Quotes

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

Everything feels so personal when you're an actor because you're so open and vulnerable, and you have to trust your director to guide you to where the storytelling needs to go.

The amazing thing with a soap is every day you're challenged, the amount of storylines we go through, the amount of emotions you get to play is really challenging.

Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.

Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

I can speak to actors in their terms. Knowing I was an actor, they relax. You can have the best shot in the world - but, at the center of it, you still need a good performance.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.