Joe Dempsie Quotes

I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.

I'm very delighted they didn't choose to do the very musical episode of 'Once Upon a Time' when Ariel came in because I probably wouldn't have been the best girl for the job!

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn't think I would be able to play a slave. I said, 'Oh, please.' I had to go in there and prove to them that I wasn't too intelligent to play a slave.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

I lost many a role to actresses who couldn't do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.

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

I've never found acting that difficult.

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

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

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.'

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.