Jackie Earle Haley Quotes

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

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

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.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

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!

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.

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.

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

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

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

You have to find out how to become the character.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

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

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.

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

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.

When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

I adore actors/actresses that have range: someone that can transform into a character that is far beyond who they truly are. Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp are amazing at this.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.