Emily Blunt Quotes

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

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.

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no matter what its size. And if I think I can't do something with a part, I won't take it.

My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.

With every character that I've ever played, I felt like I just understood the way that she thought and how she was.

I don't think Peg Bundy was very much like Katey Sagal. Definitely the wardrobe Gemma from Sons of Anarchy wears might be a little more like Katey Sagal. I mean, any time you play anything, there's pieces of yourself that you're kind of elaborating on. I mean, you're using parts of yourself.

I relate to those characters - and any character I play - in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel how I would personally deal with their experiences.

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.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

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.

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

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 live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.

When you're watching a movie and find yourself getting emotional, it's because you're bringing something personal to the images. It's the same thing with acting. You're bringing the essence of your core emotional being to that moment.

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.