Matt Bomer Quotes

As an actor, you don't really have a say or a voice in what the conversation of the show is going to be. So, as an actor, I'm just trying to make sense of why the character is making these choices, and somehow, in that way, you can sympathize or root, at least not detest, what this person is doing. That's, at least, my job in telling that story.

I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

I always approach any character I do as being right.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

I don't know how to play a character unless I love him.

As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.

When I read a script, the important thing is that I can connect in some way with that character and have some idea from what his story is that I can tell that story too, because that's all acting is, is storytelling.

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?'

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

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

As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.

You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.