Bonnie Wright Quotes

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

I think every character I play definitely has parts of me. I can't ever play someone that's completely different to me.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a way to approach something in a way that's real and interesting, and also so there's some empathy there.

I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

Something they taught us at drama school, and it's taken me a long time to realise it's true through practice, is that you can't put judgments on a character you're playing, especially while you're doing it.

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.

I mean, he's one of the greatest characters I've gotten to play over my career, so there's a little bit of me in Zuko and a little bit of Zuko in me.

Good characters don't believe they're bad. As long as you as an actor believe in them and try to understand them, it's not hard to have empathy and sympathy.

I believe each character you do, you should add your touch and uniqueness to it.

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

I think my concerns are the same as every actor. Can I find this character and make it come to life properly?

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

I believe how a character eventually turns out is completely attributable to an actor. Even with a meaty role, if I am enacting it as an accessory, I will look like an accessory.

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

As an actor, I always feel that each and every character in my films has to be distinct. The character Thilak that I play in 'Kavan' will be one such unique role in my career.