Uzo Aduba Quotes

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

As I write, I try to be the character.

When I write, I try to become different characters.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

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

When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

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.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.