Walt Dohrn Quotes

I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

I worked in casting for about five years before I became a director, and that taught me a huge amount because you never actually will see the character walk through the door - and if you do, then you have to be slightly suspicious of that.

When I do a film, it is about how I become a character.

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I do not like, I would do that.

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone else, but that actor, playing that part.

You don't often get a chance to record with the other actors who are playing the characters, mainly due to the fact that you don't have to, the actors' schedules are all over the place, and it's difficult to get everyone in the same room.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

I would be happy to play any roles.

Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.

For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.