Beth Henley Quotes

As an actor, of course it's exciting to go and explore characters. It's exciting to explore human psychology and relationships, and that's really the drive, at the end of the day, for me.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.

The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.

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 think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

Actors are investigators.

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

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

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

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

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

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.

I like to connect with the other actors in a fantasy situation.

Yes, of course it's fun to play evil, but it's simply fun to play any different characters.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

With any role I play, I find out what the human problem is first.