Miranda Otto Quotes

I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

When I choose a role, I look for that spark that tells me it's going to work. Is the role fresh? What does it have for the actor in me? Those are the only things any actor should be concerned about, really.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

If I love the story, and if I really connect with my character, I'm willing to do it. I'm willing to try new characters, to be someone that I'm not like. I like trying new emotions and being new characters. That's the thing about acting: You can be so many things!

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

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

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as they're original and I have something to do with the character.

For me, if I'm completely honest, I've always loved playing Captain Hook, also because I've gotten a chance to play so many different variations of him, so I haven't just been playing the same guy day in, day out.