Stephen Moyer Quotes

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 know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

You have to like the characters you play.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

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

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.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

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

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

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

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

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.