Anthony Carrigan Quotes

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

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

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

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

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.

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

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.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

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

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

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 take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.