Vicky Krieps Quotes

I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.

I never act my characters - I am them.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

I've heard of actors like De Niro and Streep who stay in character all day long. And Daniel Day-Lewis did it for 'My Left Foot.' I don't do that myself.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

I have a very schoolish approach to acting. I like to do my homework, know more about the character, and study it. It's all about the craft.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.