Zoe Perry Quotes

None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.

An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing.

The process of finding my voice as SpongeBob was to start by watching what Tom Kenny did, trying to do an impression of sorts, and then forgetting all about it and letting the voice become a second-nature thing.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I'll do a voice, and it's me doing the voice. To have to be Robin Williams doing the voice was an interesting sort of study in getting into somebody's head.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!