Alanna Ubach Quotes

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

I have a very schoolish approach to acting. I like to do my homework, know more about the character, and study it. It's all about the craft.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I can name a favourite food!

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say.