Emma Kenney Quotes

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

My job is to see the world through the character's eyes.

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.

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 try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

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.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

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

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

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

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

I always approach any character I do as being right.

I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.

I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.