Marshall Allman Quotes

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

I don't know how to play a character unless I love him.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.