Julian McMahon Quotes

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

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.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

I lived my 'Mom' character. I became Devaki.

I needed to stay in the character.

I feel like you can do all the research in the world, but when you start putting that costume on, put your hair in a wig and walk into those sets, that's where the visceral reaction is. It's no longer in the head. It's in the body.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

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

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

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.

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

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

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've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!