Charles Fleischer Quotes

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

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

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

It's interesting what happens when you take on a role, I think. What happens to me - without sounding too spiritual or too hippy, I guess - what happens, most of the time, you do a lot of research, and you get into the character, and at a certain moment, it's like the character takes over.

I don't prepare myself for any character unless it is really different.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

I never act my characters - I am them.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.