Alexis Bledel Quotes

In acting, you get to explore such an artistic side with different characters to research and learn and explore different things inside yourself and I do that anyway, so I might as well be doing something that I already do, as in a second nature to me, on film.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

Actors sometimes immerse themselves into it so deeply that the line between who they are and their character can become blurred. For me, I think it's just about getting clearer on my whole life and who I am in order to make it possible for me to play whatever character is presented to me at a particular time.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

It's interesting, the acting thing. I think it must be a deep sense of insecurity that made me want to explore other characters.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

Being a dramatic character was more difficult for me. It was a new thing that I explored because it was challenging. But I love to challenge myself and different things.

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

What I didn't realize about television was that's true of acting, as well. You have that space of time to develop who you are, and you can use more and more of yourself. The lines between that character that I'm playing and myself become more and more blurred and, after awhile, they just disappear, altogether.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.

I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's enriched my life extremely. I've learned more about myself and the ways of life through being an actor.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!