Gabriella Wilde Quotes

It isn't that easy to drop character, especially when you shoot for 12 to 16 hours a day for six months.

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

I always do whatever is best for the character.

There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

I don't shoot two films at the same time. I finish one character and get into another character because I change my look for every film. It's difficult, but I enjoy doing that.

I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.

Even in between takes, you emerge yourself. So you don't have a life for six months.

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

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.

I'd love to be one of those guys who could be like, 'Yeah, it's really exhausting,' but the truth is I'm not method. I don't take roles home.

When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

Acting is my passion. I can't see myself doing anything else.

When I finish a film, I want to feel drained. I want to feel like I couldn't have possibly done any more to service a character and a story.

I do some really intense roles and it's not good to bring them home.

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.

I did a film a few years ago where I gained a lot of weight for it. I was happy to do that because it was called for in the script.

I have done so many films in which either I have been the main lead or part of the supporting cast.