Karine Vanasse Quotes

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

'Dogfight' is my favorite thing I've ever worked on. It's such a special piece, and I'm so close to the character of Rose. I loved doing it every night.

It's fun to play a character that you can identify with.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.