Ed Helms Quotes

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Acting is always therapeutic.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

You have to bring yourself to a character.

Every role that one does - at least, that's what happens in my case - becomes a sort of therapy.

I mean, he's one of the greatest characters I've gotten to play over my career, so there's a little bit of me in Zuko and a little bit of Zuko in me.

I'm a very placid human being. I don't want to kill anyone. I guess I have played a lot of bad people in my career, so frustrations or angst can come out in any given role.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

I'd like to lose interest in myself.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

Acting is therapeutic.

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.