Elizabeth Marvel Quotes

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.

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.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

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

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

As I write, I try to be the character.

When I write, I try to become different characters.

I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

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

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.