Sibel Kekilli Quotes

As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.

There's no set rule, but when you look at the script, you start thinking about this person and how to create this human being on screen. You dig deeper into a script.

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of view, why they say what they do. And not, 'Oh, but I would never say that. Why does the character say that?' But then making it as personal as possible.

Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'

You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you get set to shoot because you've been working on the character: the way he walks, the way he talks, what might upset him, what might make him happy.

You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

I've always been one to want to memorize everything and just be confident that I know all of the lines, but that changed. After college, I realized it's not as much about being off-book as it is about completely understanding the character and, more so, getting into the mind of your character.

I always approach any character I do as being right.

I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel.

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

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.

After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

Every time I get a role, or the opportunity to explore a role, I look at it, and I think, 'What is the story we're trying to tell here?'

My acting style changes according to the way a character is imagined.

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.