Alyssa Sutherland Quotes

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

You have to like the characters you play.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

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

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

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.

I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize the character you're playing. Whether it's a fictional character or a real character. Because then you operate from that sort of negative point of view, and you can't humanize him.

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

Good characters don't believe they're bad. As long as you as an actor believe in them and try to understand them, it's not hard to have empathy and sympathy.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

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.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.