Sherilyn Fenn Quotes

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

There is a sense of responsibility when you play a real-life character because there are people who will see your work, make comparisons, and judge you. They have all the rights to do that because they know the real person. They might have seen that person also.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.

'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.

It's amazing how you get to recreate somebody else's life on-screen. It's wonderful when you get responses like, 'You actually look like him.'

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.

It's challenging to play a real-life character because you know that it existed in the history and you have certain parameters to follow and stay within.

It was a tricky part to play, because Herriot is both a fictional character and a real person.

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

Playing somebody who's still alive is very interesting.

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.