Lacey Chabert Quotes

Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.

When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.

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

It isn't that easy to drop character, especially when you shoot for 12 to 16 hours a day for six months.

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

You have to like the characters you play.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

Acting is acting.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.

On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.