Corey Hawkins Quotes

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

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

Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.

When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

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

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

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.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.