Kelli O'Hara Quotes

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

As long as I don't go onstage completely normal and then jump into character onstage, I assume that most fans would be able to accept me as the creator. I can comment on the work the same way a director would on his movie.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

There are some things that as an actor scare you, and if you can capture that fear on screen, it will be interesting.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.