Amy Landecker Quotes

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

I look at the story and see what I have got to do in the film. Sometimes the story is great, set-up is good but there isn't much for you to do. I don't want to do that.

I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors.

If I don't love my character, I can't do it.

I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.

I put a hell of a lot of myself into 'Love Never Dies,' and I felt quite drained afterwards.

You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny, and all the things that a person could be. If you can achieve that, you feel great. You so rarely get to do that as an actress in general, but as a black actress, it's almost never.

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.

When I finish a film, I want to feel drained. I want to feel like I couldn't have possibly done any more to service a character and a story.

A run-of-the-mill bad guy role does not satisfy me creatively.

People say to me, 'Why do you do these ugly parts?' And it's because at the end of the day, I'm an actress, and I crave the dark and the light within one job.

Sometimes you read the script and you feel that this is a challenging role but at times you feel that this one was written for me.

I've had scenes where I had to cry, and by the time I've cried for the 20th time, I'm exhausted.

'Heirs' became an emotional experience for me. I had a hard time bringing out my emotions in the series. I used all my physical and emotional energy to bring out all that acting.

Ideally, you end up going to auditions not because you want a job but because you want to try out a character.

It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.