Radha Mitchell Quotes

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

When I watch people like Cate Blanchett act, I don't know what is going on in her life, you just get lost in her performance and that's what I hope to do as well.

I get some acting jobs. I like it other than the constant slipping in and out of character.

When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.

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.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor; different characters have different demands, actors that you work with are different in their approach, or how you get along or don't get along with them.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

I never plan to stop acting, I take it very seriously.

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

I am very passionate about being an actor, and I allow my passion to find its outlet in the work I do. I don't believe that it can be called perfection. It is true that when I am intensely passionate about my films, which I am, I don't leave any stone unturned and I put every ounce of my energy into that project.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. "Action" - and then do it.

Acting is acting, and who you are will still remain to be who you are. You know, that part won't change it. It will change your wallet, you know? It'll change your life. It will open opportunities for you, but it's not going to change your character.

As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.

I've always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I'm a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings.

Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.