Ana Layevska Quotes

Getting out of a character is emotionally taxing. You get used to being a person on camera, and when you move on, the character remains with you for a long time.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.

Acting is a psychological profession, and every character drains you emotionally, regardless of whether it is an intense art house movie or a light-hearted commercial series.

When I have to do an emotional scene, I sometimes feel drained right before doing it.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

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.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

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

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.