Timothy Spall Quotes

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

For better or worse, I don't necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I'm not going to make claims that I stayed in character 24/7.

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

There's no set rule, but when you look at the script, you start thinking about this person and how to create this human being on screen. You dig deeper into a script.

I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they're playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.

Even though the 'Shooter' character on TV is so close to the real-life me, I'm still playing with ways to creatively portray that character.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.