Kathryn Hahn Quotes

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.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

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.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.

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!

Certainly my time on 'Revenge' was great; it was a different character I'd never played before.

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

Well, it definitely comes as a challenge to act as enemies onscreen when you bond with the opposite person very well off-screen.

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

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

Acting in an epic and a non-fictional film is a big challenge for actors, as they need to research extensively about the characters they are playing before stepping into their shoes.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

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.

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.