Kristian Nairn Quotes

With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

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

The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor's dream.

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

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 really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.

Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

Somebody came up with the idea of a double role, and I think 'Hum Dono' gave me a great double role - I played Captain Anand and Major Verma, the 'haw-haw' type of major.

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

It's not that easy, but the moment the camera is switched on, I have to mould myself to breathe life into the characters I portray.

It's easy to play a character who is suffering with a disease or has a psychological problem. 'Gentleman' is completely opposite. There are both positives and negatives in the role, and it is the most challenging role I have done so far.

Humpty' was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.