Donna Lynne Champlin Quotes

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.

With actors, it's really about feeding them all the time. I don't get involved in their process. I try to do the opposite, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them, and you can see very easily how they react to it.

Preparation is really important for actors; they need to know who they are, where they're from, and the experiences up to the point that we make the film.

I never do any research for my roles.

When I find those actors who are going to work that hard and collaborate that deeply, my role is to make sure there's a whole lot there for them to work with.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.

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

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.