Graham Patrick Martin Quotes

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

In acting, while you play different roles, you begin to discover yourself and begin to notice life as you relate to the characters you represent.

There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I learn something new everyday about myself as an actor, my capabilities, how far I can stretch myself, throw out emotions I never knew I had.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.

This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.