Cote de Pablo Quotes

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

As an actor, I draw from myself.

I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

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 much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

People assume that displaying your own personal ego on screen is called acting, which is actually not what acting is about.

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

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.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.