Felicity Jones Quotes

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

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.

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.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

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

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.