Lenny Kravitz Quotes

It's nice to play someone who functions in a very different way than I do.

The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.

It's difficult to learn to play these different disabled characters - Campbell in 'Switched At Birth' was paralysed from the waist down - but it's nice to be able to step into their world and live in these characters' shoes and to be able to play them, because it gives you a different look at life.

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

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

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

Sexa as a character was fun to play. My mother couldn't even recognise me in the get-up of an older guy. In fact, it surprised me also. It's easily one of the most special characters I have ever played.

It's always fun to play characters that are different from me.