Callum Blue Quotes

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

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

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

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

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

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

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'

It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

I think, like most actors, it's really exciting to be challenged.

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I'm so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.

I'm always looking to play the part that people don't think of me in.