Johnny Depp Quotes

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there's no bleed-over. I didn't need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

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

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

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

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

For me, the first thing that I respond to - whether it's doing a play or movie or television or anything - is just the character. Is this a guy whose shoes I want to walk in for the next 12 days or six months?

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

You have to bring yourself to a character.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

Getting out of a character is emotionally taxing. You get used to being a person on camera, and when you move on, the character remains with you for a long time.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.