Aaron Stanford Quotes

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm the type of actor who goes to work, transforms into a character, takes you on a journey, and then comes back home to be Billy. When I'm in it, I'm in it, but I know how to get out of it. When you can't shut it off, you're a crazy person. I'm not crazy.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

After six months of playing Chris Darden, it's very hard for me to separate my views from his.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

I don't approach my character in a set pattern. I want to get into the skin of the character. I don't love Manoj Bajpayee; I love all my characters. And that is why people today remember all my roles.

I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not how I learned to become an actor. Acting is creating a character.

I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.