Cameron Britton Quotes

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.

Schedules on TV are so tight, and it feels like they get tighter and tighter with every passing year. The idea of asking where your character's come from or where they grew up - you would just get a little bit laughed at.

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.