Angelina Jolie Quotes

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?

Voice acting is very interesting, I've done several animated projects, and you have to make the voice reflect the character and try and do as much with a word as you can with a look in a live-action film.

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

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

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.

I always try to make each character my own.

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

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 think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.

Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.