Emory Cohen Quotes

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

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

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.

It's interesting, the acting thing. I think it must be a deep sense of insecurity that made me want to explore other characters.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.

Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.

A really fun part of getting to be an actor is exploring those parts of yourself that you wouldn't otherwise explore.

I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love that about my job: getting into the character and understanding it and doing the psychoanalysis and creating that character.

If I love the story, and if I really connect with my character, I'm willing to do it. I'm willing to try new characters, to be someone that I'm not like. I like trying new emotions and being new characters. That's the thing about acting: You can be so many things!

Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You have to feel like it came from somewhere.