Joshua Sasse Quotes

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

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

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

Actors incorporate certain emotions from our own lives in order to create characters, and emotions come from experience.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.