Nadia Bjorlin Quotes

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

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

When I'm doing the Justice League stuff, my point of view is always coming through Buddy. And he's a dad, and there's stuff about his life that I relate to with my life, and I can also take the abilities of animals, which a lot of people don't know about me.

I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

I have to do some mental gymnastics as an actor sometimes, to remember not to let certain things in.

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

I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.

I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'

I really preferred the characters I could totally create by myself, because I always think of myself as an actor first.

If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.