Song Hye-kyo Quotes

I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person.

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

I am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.

No one ever has a chance to get to know the real me because I do play a bad guy, and sometimes it's hard to soak in the comments or the negativity because that's the response you want to elicit. I am a normal person, but that's part of the job. I'm playing a character, and that's my role.

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

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

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.

I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.

The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

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.

I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.