Elvis Mitchell Quotes

It's my privilege to work with an actor like Vikram who gets into the skin of the character he is playing, so much so that after the shoot it takes him quite some time to get back to his real self.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

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

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

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.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.

Even during the cuts. He was Rust Cohle during the whole day of shooting. It wasn't until the end of the day that he went back to Matthew 'Just Keep Livin' McConaughey.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor's dream.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.