Gal Gadot Quotes

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to life. Every so often a talented actor doesn't hook in correctly to a character; or someone gets lost in a labyrinth of over-complicated thoughts, and the character and play suffer. However, most of the time I find actors either end up doing exactly what was in my head, or sometimes do something even better.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

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.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.

The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.