Emma Watson Quotes

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

I wouldn't be able to tackle a character like Rosalee on 'Underground' without having tackled the many characters I've played before.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

I think the challenge for me in this role is going to be, is there any heart in Negan? For me, I look at that as a challenge as an actor, and that's the kind of thing that I embrace and really look forward to.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

I don't prepare myself for any character unless it is really different.

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

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 never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.

I'm not much of a Method actress, so even though my character in The Ghost Writer was quite dark and bad-tempered, I could only do that if I was seeming quite perky.

No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.