Ben Schnetzer Quotes

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.

Acting in an epic and a non-fictional film is a big challenge for actors, as they need to research extensively about the characters they are playing before stepping into their shoes.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

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

It's daunting to play a real living person.

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

'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

In normal life, we are all sweet and not vamp. So, to play a villain a lot of focus is required.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

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

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

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.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.