Kelvin Fletcher Quotes

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

As an actor, I'm always interested in my characters getting into trouble, because conflict is, you know, the great determiner of someone's mettle.

I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

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.'

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!

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.

Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

With comedy, I've always had a pretty good sense of what I like and how to execute it well, but drama has its own rules.

I had fun doing both types of roles. Both are good. One day you laugh, and the next day you cry. That's how it is.

Give me meaty roles, and I'll sink my teeth into them!

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.

I wanted to do what I was seeing Dorothy Dandridge doing, what I saw Marilyn Monroe do, what I saw Bette Davis do. I wanted to do that: to tell stories. I wanted to make people laugh, make people cry. I wanted to be a storyteller.

To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.