Dan Amboyer Quotes

I always fall in love with every character I play.

There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

Every character I've played is like family to me.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

I have to believe in the character to perform it.

As you live with a character longer, you claim more ownership over it. You become more defensive of it. It becomes like a person that you know.

I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit.

I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

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

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

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