Character Separation Quotes

Many take the roles home with them and live the part. I'm quite happy to leave mine at the studio and return home as I left: simple old Roger Moore.

I am not Spock.

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

I don't take characters home with me.

I think when I was a younger actor, I did carry that stuff home. When I did ...And Justice For All, I was afraid to drop the character. But when you get older, you learn to go, "Okay, that's it. Let's go have dinner."

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now it’s getting to the point where the story is beginning to delta back in, and the viewpoint characters are occasionally meeting up with each other now and being in the same point at the same time, which gives me a lot more flexibility for killing people.

From a backstage perspective, one of the things I always tried to do in wrestling was maintain that I was Adam. Edge was a character.

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.

I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.

When you're playing a superhero, you're almost playing two different people. I separate when I'm playing Jefferson Pierce and the days when I'm playing Black Lightning.

Once the scene is over, I come out of it. I don't carry the character with me for long as many actors do.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

I'm able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. I'm looking forward to it.

People really do identify with the characters they see on the show, but these days, social media allows you to interact with fans in a really interesting way. On my Twitter account, I'm Chris Carmack, not Will Lexington. I interact with fans and joke with them. I'll post pictures from my life. I think that helps drop the curtain of a character.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.