Holliday Grainger Quotes

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right?

Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be very angry, very depressed, and I had to pull all of these emotions out of myself. And it wasn't easy.

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

Humpty' was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

I love period dramas - be it romance or philosophy.

Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tick. But to find a character like Kai, who is so far that he doesn't even feel things, he is so different from me. That is the most exciting part.

For an actor, for me, I love being able to tap into just heavy emotions. I don't need to be balling in every scene, but I just love to feel different emotions when heading to set. It's a lot of fun to play with.

As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience than being on camera. There's just something different about it that's not more fun, but a different sort of fun.

I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for a different century or a different time period as an actor, as an individual. Something that's, what's the word, something that's not involved with spaceships.

It's nice to play someone who functions in a very different way than I do.

I've played a bunch of different versions of Walter [from "Fringe"]... I loved it when he was being random, which was probably the original version of him, more than anyone else. I loved doing Walter then, and all of the different mental states that we've played.

Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.

There's something very cool as an actor when you have an opportunity to play somebody who's real, whether they're still alive or not, but who has lived a life.

I did an after-school special as my first big thing. It was starring Butterfly McQueen. She was the name. But the real star of it was Robbie Rist, who was that little blond kid who looked like John Denver.

I've been playing a lot of really strong, able woman, but I think it would be really fun to play a crazy drug addict, or something.