Sandrine Bonnaire Quotes

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

I like drama. My first movie that I did, 'Soul Survivors', was a drama, and I'm just drawn to that; that's sort of my forte.

I feel very lucky to play these well-rounded characters.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

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've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

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

I love playing odd roles.

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

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