Madelaine Petsch Quotes

People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.

The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.

I do play villains.

Roles make the actor.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

I really enjoy being an actor!

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in 'Easy A', or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

I played comedies and dramas.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I'm an actress, not a pinup.

An actor has to embody a role.

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.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.