Jane Kaczmarek Quotes

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

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

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

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

'Dogfight' is my favorite thing I've ever worked on. It's such a special piece, and I'm so close to the character of Rose. I loved doing it every night.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

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.

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

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

When I'm doing the Justice League stuff, my point of view is always coming through Buddy. And he's a dad, and there's stuff about his life that I relate to with my life, and I can also take the abilities of animals, which a lot of people don't know about me.

I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!

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

When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.