Keith Carradine Quotes

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.

It's easier to play quirky characters and hide behind wardrobe and make-up, especially.

Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

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.

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

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.

You have to find out how to become the character.

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.

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.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

I try to change my physical appearance for every role.

I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.

It's not that easy, but the moment the camera is switched on, I have to mould myself to breathe life into the characters I portray.