Ross Lynch Quotes

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

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

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

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

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.

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

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

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

A part of my job, when I'm playing a character and approaching a role, is to rationalize and to not judge whatsoever.

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 just try to put myself in the minds of all the characters.

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

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

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

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

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

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.