Megan Hilty Quotes

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

As an actor, I think it is important you at least almost like the character that you're playing. Or can find a personal justification for the character as to why they're doing what they're doing.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

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