Omari Hardwick Quotes

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past. I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. If it's well written, it allows your imagination to run wild and draw inspiration from that.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

I can watch movies that I've been in, and if there's an emotional scene, I remember specifically what I was using, what I was thinking about, because I am very specific in how I work.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

I don't prepare for my characters.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

My acting style changes according to the way a character is imagined.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day before a project starts. So to be able to really sit and inhabit that mind and the story is really beneficial, and it really helps for me to be able to then compartmentalize as we're shooting and detach and go somewhere else.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.