Jessica Pare Quotes

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.

Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You have to feel like it came from somewhere.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

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

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. So it never surprises me. And if it's good writing, you can find your way into the part well enough.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

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 rarely do any back story. I often get a thick bible of back story, but I can't use it. The back story is a tool of the writer. But I can only act what's in the scene.

My task is to find the authenticity in the character. I tend to go with the script and tell that story.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.