Liberty Ross Quotes

With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

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.

It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

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

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

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

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

It's fun to play a character that you can identify with.

My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

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 think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

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

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

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.