Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

I think when you're playing a character in any film it's so crucial to have the costume that makes you feel like you're going to be that character.

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.

If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary.

You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

As far as 'Jane Pittman,' I don't know that I could verbalize, to this day, what I felt once I got into that role. I did a tremendous amount of research. I need to feel as though I am in the person's skin.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

I love playing characters that are unrecognizable.

In the mid-'80s when the business took a big change, everybody was living their character.

As an actress, I want to live many lives on-screen.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

As an actor, it is my job to prepare for the role I am playing.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

I'm able to look the person acting across from me and respond to that. There are times when it becomes so lonely and painful, but I think I'm able to overcome them because I realize that the more fiercely you prepare for a role, the more the audience can feel it.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

The more you have in your toolbox, if you can visualize or have a moment to provide you a visual, as an actor, that's paramount.

I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.

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.

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

I feel, as an actor, you should be in a position to mould yourself into different characters and should have the ability to change.

I have always loved fashion, trends, style, make-up and hair, but yes, some sort of a transformation truly happens when I play a 'bahu'. That's when I have to wear brown lenses to cover my green eyes, colour my hair dark, wear saris, and surprise myself that I can pull this off, too.