Randy Harrison Quotes

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

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.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

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

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

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

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's an advantage.

Whenever I read a script, I don't differentiate between a kissing scene or an emotional scene.

Be it TV, films, or stage, I love substantial roles. The length of the character doesn't matter, but if the character is well thought, then I have to grab it.

As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

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.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.